Deputy Senate Leader, Ajayi Boroffice, has berated the ministry of health for lack of screening of travellers to ascertain if they have contracted Coronavirus.
He stated that travellers were only given a form to indicate whether they were sick or not at the Nnamdi Azikwe Airport, Abuja.
Boroffice compared the method to South Africa where he said travellers were checked before disembarking from planes.
He urged the Federal Ministry of Health to put proper checks in place to contain the virus before it begins to spread into the country.
Boroffcie further stated that;
Because of the issue of Coronavirus, every country in the world is taking preventive measures because the wisdom is that prevention is better than cure. I was in South Africa on Friday, I came back yesterday. In South Africa, we were not allowed to leave the aircraft for good 30 minutes. Officers of the medical corps came into the aircraft and screened everybody before we were allowed out.
The Senate leader alleged that when he arrived the Nnamdi Azikiwe Airport on February 27, there was no screening.
He contiued sayimg;
All we were given was a sheet of paper to indicate whether we were sick and whether we had been to one country or the other and how we will be contacted if there was an emergency,
How will you trail me? How do you know if I have fallen sick. This is very frightening.”
Boroffice and the Senate urged the government and health ministry to intensify screening of all travellers at every airport in the country to prevent the virus from entering Nigeria.
