Nigerian Govt announces new vacation guidelines for Uk, South Africa passengers
The Presidential Undertaking Pressure (PTF) on COVID-19 has announced new vacation rules for travellers coming into Nigeria from United kingdom and South Africa wherever a new variant of the virus has been uncovered.
The National Coordinator of the PTF, Dr Sani Aliyu built the announcement on Thursday in Abuja, through a media briefing.
Aliyu claimed helpful from Monday, all travellers coming into the region from the Uk and South Africa on immediate flights will have to use the Nigerian International Travel Portal to sign-up.
They are to also fill in the wellbeing questionnaire and ought to add a adverse COVID-19, polymerase chain reaction, (PCR) final result with a validity of not far more than five times.
He added that travelers ought to pay out for a COVID-19 PCR examination at working day seven of arrival in the country without the need of which they would not be allowed to board the flights.
The coordinator also said a specific sign-up would be opened at the airports for passengers from these two international locations especially to keep track of and make sure they offered them selves for the COVID-19 examination on working day seven.
He mentioned there would be sanctions on travellers that introduced faux PRC final results.
“We’ll carry on to be involved about the emergence of the new variant coronavirus in the Uk and added mutate that was described coming from South Africa.
“The method for travels in conditions of ensuring the security of our citizens and blocking the importation of cases in the country is one of the most stringent.
“We are 1 of the couple of nations around the world that do double screening, that have a journey portal the place you can go in and enter your specifics like your well being questionnaire and pay back for a check.
“Specifically, for the Uk and South Africa, the PTF has satisfied and we have made a decision that supplemental measures will be required to assure security of our citizens.
“So helpful from 00 several hours on Monday, Dec. 28, all passengers coming into the region from the United kingdom and South Africa on direct flights, will have to use the Nigerian Worldwide Travel Portal to sign-up.
“Fill in the overall health questionnaire and should upload a adverse COVID-19 PCR outcome with a validity of not additional than 5 days and will have to spend for a COVID PCR check at working day 7 of arrival in country.
“When you are leaving the United kingdom or South Africa, you require two paperwork that you have to existing to the airlines.
“The very first doc is a negative COVID-19 PCR end result, second is a allow to vacation document, which we use to refer to as the QR code.
“The only way you can get the permit to journey on the travel portal is by filling in your health questionnaire electronically, uploading your PCR final result and spending for the working day seven test.
“If you do not existing a allow travel or you simply cannot existing a travel allow, the airways are currently being directed not to board.
“So if you are coming into Nigeria from the United kingdom and South Africa, it is in your greatest fascination to familiarise your self with the Nigerian International Journey Portal and make positive that you place in your well being facts.
“Upload your PCR end result that has to be detrimental and you spend for a working day 7 test on arrival in Nigeria.
“The second enforcement that we will have has to do with the 7 day self-isolation upon arrival in the region. We experienced a lot of debates on if we must institute required quarantine when the individuals arrive.
“We have made the decision that when you arrive, we will open up a unique sign up for all passengers arriving from these two international locations.
“We will have an enhanced surveillance exactly where these passengers will be contacted soon after they have arrived residence, we will be checking on them to see if they are owning any symptoms.
“But much more importantly, we anticipate these travellers by working day 7 to unfailing go for their COVID-19 PCR examination which they have to have right before boarding the plane.
“We have already mentioned suitable from September, when we opened up Global airspace that there will be penalties for not abiding by the protocols.
“President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday, permitted that from now on specifically for individuals coming from the Uk and South Africa, we will shell out particular focus to these flights.
“If you do not do your day seven assessments by working day 10, you will routinely go into the suspension list. Your travel document – passport will be suspended for a bare minimum period of time of six months.
“If you carry a International passport with a visa, we will revoke your visa. And due to the fact it is simpler to observe a smaller sized team of persons than a greater group of passengers.
“That has often been our problem, we are now in a position to implement this specifically for travellers from the Uk and South Africa right until additional detect.
“In addition to that, above this weekend, we are going to publish the record of 100 Nigerian passport figures that we have for six months.
“We have already contacted these passengers and we have confirmed that they have not done a COVID -19 PCR exam. We will not be publishing names, but the passport quantities.
“From now on, individuals that are traveling must abide by our protocols, there will be repercussions if you don’t. There will be penalties.
“In addition to this, we will also be instituting the exact same penalties for persons presenting fake COVID-19 PCR success at our airports on exiting or on arrival.
“For these that are exiting, we have a code that we have created and we are asking the airways to commence applying which will entail moving into the code for each and every consequence into our website that will tell you irrespective of whether the end result is fake or not.
“So, be sure to do not purchase or use fake result, you are placing some others at pitfalls if you do so,” he mentioned.