COVID-19 Second Wave – FG, National Assembly Consider UK, US Flights’ Ban Next Week

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation Senator Smart Adeyemi, on Monday said the National Assembly and the Ministry of Aviation were considering banning flights from the United Kingdom, the United States and other countries with high rates of COVID-19. He stated that the joint National Assembly Committees on Aviation, the Aviation Ministry and agencies in the sector had been holding regular meetings in the past few days on the matter. Adeyemi stated this in Abuja. He said the National Assembly and the Federal Government were concerned about the second wave of COVID-19. “COVID-19 is of great concern to everyone and it has proven that it is real. Nigeria as a country has been able to contain the situation because our people are very conscious of the protocols. The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, said travellers from the UK and the US were worsening COVID-19 cases in Nigeria. As of Sunday, Nigeria had recorded 84,414 cases of the virus with 1,254 deaths. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control had said after a drop in the death rate from September to November, it went up to 74 this month.