Covid-19: Nigeria to Evacuate over 2,000 Citizens from US, UK
Nigeria has begun evacuating over 2,000 Nigerian citizens who have expressed their wish to leave the US, UK and other European countries affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs minister Godfrey Onyeama said they have contracted two airlines to fly their citizens home from these countries.
“We are in touch with our various embassies around the world and we are already collating names. We have also selected the two airlines that will be responsible for the evacuation.”
“The numbers of those to be brought are high and the places where we can isolate them are not enough for the travelers, so we will have to do it in a staggered fashion and together with Nema and the Ministry of Health,” he said.
“We will have to go with an agreement to be bringing them according to the number of beds and so forth that are available. We are almost ready to go.”
Those being evacuated must undergo a mandatory Covid-19 test in their host countries and also undertake a compulsory 14-day quarantine on arrival in line with the guidelines issued by the National Centre for Disease Control. In addition, they will be evacuated and quarantined at their own costs.
These conditions were issued by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, headed by Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa.
The announcement by Nigeria comes a day after Kenya, through Foreign Affairs PS Amb. Macharia Kamau ruled out the evacuation of Kenyans stranded abroad in the wake of the Covid-19 outbreak, terming it impractical.
“We have 3 million Kenyans out there. If we were to evacuate just one percent, those are 30,000 people. Just imagine the logistics. Our planes will have to crisscross the globe. Just imagine bringing 30,000 people back. Do we even have the quarantine facilities?” posed Amb. Macharia.
“Those asking us to send planes should know that it is difficult. Some Kenyans are Hungary, some in China, others in Italy. That means planes will be hovering all over the world. Ndege sio matatu bwana (A plane is not a matatu).”
Comments (19)
Raise your hand if you gonna go back to Kenya....NOW!!!
I'm already in Kenya. Any other question?
Nini kibaya ExD?😍
We wacha zako bwana! Kenyan planes have been Matatus since time Immemorial.
Raise your hand if you gonna go back to Kenya....NOW!!!
If Kenya flies home it's Diasporans: Ninety percent (90%) will be 'ghost' diasporans; and lots of Taxpayers' money ending up in Corrupt pockets (as Usual).
I want to see how many Nigerians will board those planes back to 419 land.
Bawoni? Hey! The most of the Nigerians that could be willing to Fly to Nigerian (to be there for sometime) are 1. Those wanting free ride 2. Those unemployed (for the time being) 3. Those in Corona Epicenters like New York 4. And those really Afraid of Catching COVID-19
Those who have looted oil money. Wanjiku Nigerians busy working mostly in health field.
Diaspora warudi wapi?Hawana chochote warudi wakakufie Kenya?Kenya if u have nothing kaa huko diaspora otherwise ile shida itakupata huku hauwezani???Kama wewe ni bongo lala unakuranga kfc maccus pesa yote wewe kaa huko.
Mke halisi. Kenya si ya Mamako. Wewe ulisalitiwa Uhamini na UKAFUKUZWA kurudi Kenya. Kwa hivyo Wacha wenzako warudi Kenya (kwa Amani; na Imani) wakitaka.
🤔...😎.
Na bona mimi sijakufa? We live in a free world, whoever wants to travel anywhere in the world are free to do so. I have traveled to Kenya. I'm home, death stalks anywhere, everywhere. They are dying in US in large numbers. It may happen in Kenya, too. No one will live forever.
Nowadays in the US people die at a Daily average Rate of 40 per US State/ or per US 'country').
Guest, in NYC, the rate is way higher. 2000 plus per day.
Guest, in NYC, I take that back. The death rate in NYC is 700 per day. 2000 plus or minus is for overall USA.
It may not be necessary to evaccuate anyone, if the battle against the virus is successful. Scientifically, it is currently being fought on three fronts, and success in any one of them is Invaluable. Apart from the well known Chloroquine, it is suspected that BCG, the vaccine against TB, may also work with Coronavirus. All Africans are immunized against TB at Birth. But this is not done in Western Countries, or China. It may be the reason for low infection and death rates in Africa. We are soon going to know if this is true, because Australia has vaccinated its Health Workforce with BCG, and in the coming weeks, will be able to know how effective it is with Covid-19. Thirdly, and this is the most promising, because it has already been approved for use in Humans, is the drug Remdesivir. It is a drug which was developed to treat Ebola patients, in 2015, but it proved to be ineffective against it. But it has shown signs of being effective against Coronavirus. The promise arises from the fact that if it is proven to be effective, all the necessary and lengthy tests to know if it can work on humans, which take months to complete, have already been done before.
@Settled Nomad, BCG was stopped in UK in 2005. In other countries it varies when they stopped it.
I saw this fool called Godfrey Onyeama giving excuses on Youtube why Chinese are mistreating black people in China.