Members of the House of Representatives have called on the federal government to halt all flights from UK, Spain, Italy, the USA, China and South Korea, where there are high cases of the dreaded coronavirus.

The lawmakers made the resolution on Tuesday while adopting a motion of urgent national importance by Onofiok Luke(Akwa-Ibom, PDP).

They also resolved that only Nigerian citizens who will be tested on arrival should be allowed in and maybe quarantined if necessary.

The federal government had announced that Nigeria had no plans on restricting any country’s nationals from entering the country.

The minister of state for health, Olorunnimbe Mamora, said instead, the country would be intensifying screening on passengers from eight countries – China, Iran, South Korea, Italy, Germany, Japan, France, and Spain.

Mr Mamora, while giving the national update on the status of the disease in the country, said these eight countries have been highlighted as countries with a high risk of widespread community transmission and screening would be intensified on passengers from these countries.

The U.S. and U.K., despite having high ongoing transmission and cases, are not part of the countries earmarked for intensive passenger screening.

Dangote’s Indian staff quarantined over Coronavirus

An Indian contractor staff with Dangote Industries Limited has been quarantined for Coronavirus at the Infectious Disease Hospital, Yaba area of Lagos, Southwest Nigeria.

Management of the Dangote Industries Limited in a statement on Tuesday said its attention had been drawn to a flash report of a suspected case of personnel currently being kept in isolation at the Mainland hospital, Yaba, Lagos.

The Company said “We will like to state that an Indian national who is a staff of Onshore Construction Company-a mechanical, electrical and instrumentation contracting firm that specialises in fertiliser construction reported at the Site clinic complaining of high temperature and fever.