{"id":1031172,"date":"2022-03-22T22:25:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/nigeria-scraps-pre-departure-covid-tests\/"},"modified":"2022-03-22T22:25:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T22:25:58","slug":"nigeria-scraps-pre-departure-covid-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/22\/nigeria-scraps-pre-departure-covid-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria scraps pre-departure Covid tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"462\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image_2022-03-23_011549-696x462.png\"   alt=\"[File: Afolabi Sotunde\/Reuters]\" title=\"[File: Afolabi Sotunde\/Reuters]\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">[File: Afolabi Sotunde\/Reuters]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Nigerian government says fully vaccinated travellers coming into the country will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR Covid-19 test.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first major reversal to the public health safety protocols since Nigeria started seeing a decline in the number of infections.<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the Presidential Covid Response Team, Boss Mustapha, said in the capital Abuja on Monday that the change would come into effect from 4 April.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that passengers who are unvaccinated or partially vaccinated are still expected to take a Covid test 48 hours before departure, or do one on the second and seventh day on arrival.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>He said that fully vaccinated passengers will no longer be charged for rapid antigen tests at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>So far, 255,103 Covid-19 cases have been recorded in Nigeria including 3,142 people who have died of related infections since the beginning of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ReL86kSzhQI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Policy Rate: BoG increases rate to 17% citing inflation, petroleum prices among reasons (22-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ReL86kSzhQI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[File: Afolabi Sotunde\/Reuters] The Nigerian government says fully vaccinated travellers coming into the country will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR Covid-19 test. This is the first major reversal to the public health safety protocols since Nigeria started seeing a decline in the number of infections. The chairman of the Presidential Covid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1031174,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}