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UAE Lifts Travel Ban On Nigeria, Gives Fresh Directives To Passengers
- The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has lifted its travel ban on Nigeria.
The United Arab Emirates has lifted its travel ban on Nigeria, India, and South Africa, EKO HOT BLOG has gathered.
This was disclosed via a message from the Dubai Media Office on Saturday.
The UAE announced that passengers from Nigeria are expected to “provide a negative result for a PCR test taken within 48 hours before departure.
“Passengers from these countries are also expected to present a negative PCR test certificate with a OR code from laboratories approved by the Nigerian government, while also undergoing the same test upon arrival at the Dubai airport,” the Dubai Media Office stated.
It would be recalled that Emirates Airline, on February 1st, 2021, directed that Nigerian travellers at the Lagos and Abuja airports must conduct rapid COVID-19 tests before departure.
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Paying the UAE airline in its own coin, the Federal Government of Nigeria retaliated by also slamming a ban on Emirates flights in the country.
EKO HOT BLOG understands that the ban was however lifted after the Middle East airline agreed to stop the rapid antigen tests.
FG again on March 15 reintroduced the ban, saying the airline rescinded the agreement.
FILE – In this Tuesday, April 7, 2020 file photo, U.S. citizens queue to check in and be repatriated aboard an evacuation flight arranged by the U.S. embassy and chartered with Delta Air Lines, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. African nations face a difficult choice as infections are rapidly rising: Welcome the international flights that originally brought COVID-19 to the ill-prepared continent, or further hurt their economies. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
On March 25, 2021, the UAE Embassy in Abuja announced new COVID-19 travel protocols for Nigeria as part of efforts to curtail the spread of coronavirus in the country.
The UAE declared that passengers, who have been in or transited through South Africa or Nigeria in the last 14 days before travelling to Dubai, were barred from entering Dubai.
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