COVID-19 test results: NCDC attributes travellers’ complaints to technical failure
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The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC) said recent complaints by travelers to Nigeria over their inability to obtain QR Codes and acknowledgment of COVID-19 test results was due to system failure.
The Director-General, NCDC, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, said this in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), on Thursday in Abuja.
NAN reports that passengers have expressed frustration over their inability to access the portal, costs of the test on arrival and other challenges.
Taking to Twitter, some passengers highlighted that they had been unable to complete payment online and, therefore, were unable to board their aircraft.
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has registered 35 new recoveries from the COVID-19 infections, bringing the total number of recoveries in the country to 154,441.
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Nigeria has tightened travel restrictions on all passengers arriving from South Africa and the UK.
Travellers will be processed separately upon arrival and will be subjected to at least seven days in quarantine, even with a negative Covid-19 PCR test.
Airlines who fail to comply with the new regulations will be fined up to R51,000 for each defaulting passenger.
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Passengers travelling from South Africa to Nigeria will be subject to strict regulations effective from Monday 28 December 2020. The latest travel restrictions follow the discovery of 501.V2, a mutation of Covid-19 which is more contagious than the original virus.
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