About one hundred international passengers have been placed on six months’ travel restriction for flouting the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19 polymerase chain reaction test.
The decision came barely five days after the Federal Government’s announcement on the planned action against the defaulters.
The Secretary to the Government of the Federation and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha, announced this in a memo titled ‘Travel restriction,’ released by the Federal Ministry of Information and Culture.
According to him, the six months’ travel restriction, which took effect on first January, 2021, was “based on presidential authority.”
He said, defaulting passengers have been notified and will be prevented from travelling out of the country during this period.”
Mustapha also noted that the PTF had worked out additional quarantine protocols to be observed by travellers arriving from the UK and South Africa, in keeping with government determination to minimize any possibility of importation of the virus.
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