Nigeria has placed restriction on travellers from 13 major countries affected by the coronavirus.
Secretary to Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, who disclosed this on Wednesday at a news conference in Abuja, said the restrictions would take effect from Saturday, March 21, and last for four weeks.
He named the affected countries as; China, where the virus emanated from, Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, Norway, the U.S., the UK, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.
According to Mustapha, the restrictions would be subject to a review at the end of four weeks.
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The SGF pointed out that the countries mentioned all have more than 1,000 cases of the coronavirus, code-named COVID-19 by the World Health Organisation, domestically.
He said: “You will also recall that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 at the end of a meeting announced the ban on all forms of travels by public officers and civil servants until further notice.
“This morning, we have found it necessary to brief Nigerians on further measures being taken after an assessment of the global situation.
“All persons arriving in Nigeria who might have visited these countries 15 days prior to such arrival, will be subjected to supervised self-isolation and testing for 14 days,” he said.
