No infrastructure for COVID-19 testing at airports – NCAA
The Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) has revealed that there is no infrastructure to conduct COVID-19 tests upon resumption of international flights on August 29.
Director-General of
the NCAA, Musa Nuhu in his speech at Monday August 24, briefing of the
Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 said operators in the aviation sector had
aligned with the pre-departure testing protocol stipulated by the PTF and are
working hard to be ready for the August 29 resumption date.
Nuhu said;
“This entails working closely with the
national coordinator and the Port Health Services to develop protocols for
testing (of passengers) coming to Nigeria.
“The aviation sector
is quite comfortable and agrees with the protocols of the pre-departure PCR
test. We are quite comfortable with that.
“In addition to
that, we do not have infrastructure at the airports to deal with this. The
airports were never built for such. So we need to build infrastructure.”
He concluded by
saying that the airports will be overcrowded even if they had the
infrastructure.
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