The National Coordinator of Presidential Task Force (PTF), Sani Aliyu has disclosed that out of the 2,403 COVID-19 tests carried out on international travellers, 80 people tested positive.
The PTF said this recently while talking about the need for travellers to undergo another round of Coronavirus test seven days after arriving Nigeria.
Aliyu noted that the patients arrived the country with a negative PCR test and added that a repeat test would not have been necessary if Nigeria had a system of enforcing isolation such that anybody coming into the country can self-isolate effectively for two weeks.
Also, he asked international travellers to carry out Coronavirus tests only in private laboratories posted on the travel portal of the government.
Aliyu said: “Of the 2,403 passengers that were tested in Lagos when we started the exercise, 80 were positive. Meanwhile, they had negative COVID-19 PCR test.
“No federal government agency is receiving these funds. The negotiation for the cost is between the state governments and the private labs themselves.
“The charges range between N35,600 for the Kano portal which we are just about to operationalise to N50,400 for Lagos.”
