'Currently, COVID-19 is still on rampage, so the evacuation continues,” the official said.
The Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission , Abike Dabiri-Erewa, gave the figure during a briefing with reporters in Abuja on Tuesday, ahead of the National Diaspora Day celebrations on July 25.
While many complained about the evacuation fee of N290,000, the Foreign Affairs minister, Geoffrey Onyeama, said the federal government had no resources to foot the bills of returning Nigerians. At the initial stage of the evacuation, Mr Onyeama, at a May briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said the fee covered accommodation and feeding bill of the returnees who were taken in on a 14-day quarantine before they dispersed to their various homes.
The evacuees are to be tested at most nine days before their flight takes off and those who test positive are not allowed on the flight.
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