COVID-19: FG Places Travel Restrictions on 100 Passengers

Hamilton Nwosa
Writer
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By Hamilton Nwosa(Head, The New Diplomat’s Polling, Research & Data desk)

The Federal Government, FG has placed a six-month travel restriction on 100 passengers for flouting COVID-19 directives.

The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 announced this on Tuesday through its Twitter handle.

The PTF also released the passport details of the defaulters.

Presidential Task Force sanctions 100 Passports in Second Batch of those who failed to comply with the mandatory seven-day post-arrival COVID-19 Test. PENALTY: six-month travel restriction from February 5 to July 30, 2021,” it tweeted.

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