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Diasporia News of Wednesday, 15 April 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

COVID-19: Why we can't evacuate all Nigerians abroad - FG

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama

The Nigerian government has revealed that it cannot evacuate all Nigerians abroad who would like to return home due to the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus.

Although the Ministry has directed all its missions abroad to compile the list of those willing to return, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama, said that the country does not have the capacity or resources to do so.[Daily Post]

“It is not as simple as people think. We just don’t have the capacity and resources to absorb all of them immediately, so we would have to probably do it in stages.

“It is not as simple as people think it is. We have to make provision for isolation centres for them in Nigeria here, where they would be isolated for 14 days,” Onyeama said during an interview with Channels TV on Tuesday.

As of the time of this report, The Nigeria Center for Disease Control - NCDC has recorded a total of 373 coronavirus cases and 11 deaths with 99 recoveries.