NCDC defends pre/post departure test for air travellers

on local or international flights, are important because individuals have two separate opportunities for infection.

It said that in Abuja for example, five per cent of returning travellers tested positive for COVID-19. “A post-departure test is necessary even with a pre-departure test for two reasons. You have two separate opportunities for infection – one is in the five days prior to travel. Initially, we limited it to 72 hours, then to six days, and now we have moved it to five days.

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