The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Aviation, Senator Smart Adeyemi, on Monday said the National Assembly and the Ministry of Aviation were thinking about restricting departures from the United Kingdom, the United States and different nations with high paces of COVID-19.
Adeyemi, who expressed this in a meeting with one of our reporters in Abuja, said a choice on the issue would be declared one week from now.
The Federal Government's arrangement may not be detached with pressures on it to stop additionally spread of Covid by prohibiting departures from countries with high paces of the infection.
Review that the President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof Innocent Ujah, had in a meeting with The PUNCH on Sunday, said voyagers from the UK and the US were demolishing COVID-19 cases in Nigeria.
The NMA president expressed, "Government realizes that they (voyagers from the UK and the US) are the ones liable for increment in cases and the outcomes have indicated that and government understands what they ought to do."
Despite the fact that the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 had on Thursday forced new necessities on travelers from the UK and South Africa, departures from the two nations were not prohibited.
The PTF just opened registers for explorers from the two nations in view of deadlier strains of Covid found there.
It, nonetheless, said there were no new strains of the infection in Nigeria. However, there are fears that explorers who acquired phony COVID-19 outcomes might have carried the new infection into the nation.
As indicated by worldometers.info, as of 6:55pm on Monday, the US had recorded 19,589,952 COVID-19 cases with 341,332 passings.
The UK had 2,329,730 COVID-19 cases with 71,109 passings. Sweden had 396,048 cases with 8,279 recorded.
As of Sunday, Nigeria had recorded 84,414 instances of the infection with 1,254 passings. In any case, passings from the infection have expanded forcefully since the subsequent wave began a month ago.
The Nigeria Center for Disease Control had said after a drop in the passing rate from September to November, it went up to 74 this month.
Adeyemi, in the meeting with The PUNCH, said the National Assembly and the Federal Government were worried about the second influx of COVID-19.
He expressed that the joint National Assembly Committees on Aviation, the Aviation Ministry and organizations in the area had been holding normal gatherings in the previous few days on the issue.
He said the gatherings were truly examining potential effects of the proposed boycott and other related issues.
Adeyemi stated, "We are as yet attempting to examine the circumstance to realize the proper strides to take. It is a dismal circumstance no uncertainty.
"The National Assembly and the Aviation Ministry are seeing what definitely should be done on the call to boycott a portion of the flights coming in, from the United Kingdom, yet additionally different nations where the pandemic spreads are more extreme.
"The National Assembly Joint Committee on Aviation is talking about with the Ministry of Aviation and we are seeing what should be possible and the correct strides to be taken.
"Coronavirus is of extraordinary worry to everybody and it has been demonstrated that it is genuine. Nigeria as a nation has had the option to contain the circumstance in light of the fact that our kin are aware of the conventions.
"The way that we are encountering the subsequent wave is a worry. In this way, the service and the National Assembly are thinking about a by and large restriction of departures from the pandemic inclined nations like the United Kingdom, the United States, the Asian nations, Sweden, among others.
"We have been examining the circumstance. We would come to an end result in the following not many days. We are taking a gander at the figures, the pace of contamination, the way of disease and government reaction.
"We are examining the ramifications of the by and large boycott of flights and whether it would be of any significance to the control of the infection.
"We have conventions for guests showing up in Nigeria which we ensure are in effect carefully noticed. Regardless, in the following not many days, we would realize what to do.
"The Senate and the House of Representatives boards on Aviation, the Ministry of Aviation, and all the organizations under the service have been participating in standard gatherings over the circumstance.
"By one week from now, we would concoct an unequivocal end on whether there would be an out and out restriction of departures from the influenced nations or the following stages to take."
FG will do nothing that will influence wellbeing of Nigerians – Aviation service
At the point when reached, the Director, Public Affairs, Ministry of Aviation, James Oduadu, said a potential flight boycott must be pair with neighboring nations.
He stated, "If Nigeria will do a flight boycott, it will be in coalition with our neighboring nations. I guarantee you that we are checking the circumstance intently. The public authority will do nothing that will influence the wellbeing of Nigerians.
"The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority delivered a notification to air administrators two days prior on certain travelers rolling in from the United Kingdom and South Africa. Aside from that, I am not mindful of any prohibition on flights. Right now, I am not mindful of any flight boycott. The circumstance may change tomorrow, yet as of now, I am not mindful."
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A flying advisor, Mr Olumide Ohunayo, disclosed to The PUNCH that he was not on the side of any restriction on trips as long as the rules set by the NCAA were as yet clung to.
He stated, "What the public authority has done is to build reconnaissance and severe perception of travelers. The conventions are as yet the equivalent. That of the United Kingdom and South Africa is 96 hours. You are likewise needed to have a fly grant.
"Despite the fact that individuals are clamoring for an all out boycott of flights. I am not on the side of the complete boycott. To guarantee that the aircrafts consent, an extra fine of $3,500 has been forced on carriers on every traveler that disregards the convention. I think these rules are useful for the present and we need to build reconnaissance."
The representative for Dana Air, Mr Kingsley Ezenwa, requested that the public authority keep on authorizing COVID-19 conventions.
He stated, "The best thing should be the requirement of conventions. A flight boycott could hurt the economy now. As far as we might be concerned, we are as yet keeping to the conventions 100%. From the passageway of the air terminal to the last boarding and onto the airplane, the conventions are still there. Voyagers are to utilize hand sanitisers on the flight."
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