NCDC Advises COVID-19 Survivors On What To Do
Embassy of the United States of America, US has opined that the State’s priority was the safety and security of all citizens overseas.
The Embassy disclosed this while giving an update on the evacuation of its citizens in Nigeria and other countries amid the COVID-19 global crisis.
The update was revealed in a ‘Fact Sheet on Repatriation of American Citizens from Nigeria, according to the Fact sheet, Ethiopian Airlines evacuated 385 Americans to Washington D.C on Monday.
They were airlifted with a B777-300 aircraft from the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The sheet disclosed that as of April 6, over 44,000 U.S. citizens in Nigeria and 77 other nations had been repatriated.
The countries are Albania, Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Bangladesh, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo (DRC), Cote d’Ivoire, Cyprus, Djibouti and the Dominican Republic.
Others are Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, France, Gabon, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, India, Iraq, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, North Macedonia, Pakistan and Panama.
Also on the list are Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, Uruguay, and Uzbekistan.
Meanwhile, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has put the number of coronavirus cases in the country at 238.