OMICRON: CANADA ADDS NIGERIA TO TRAVEL BAN LIST
Reports indicate that Canada has added Nigeria, Malawi, and Egypt to the list of African countries from which it is banning travelers amid concerns about the spread of the new Omicron Covid-19 strain.
“We are adding three countries to the list of these countries that we talked about last Friday, these are Malawi, Egypt and Nigeria,” Canadian Health Minister Jean-Yves Duclos was quoted as saying by Sputnik news agency.
Duclos added that all travelers coming from outside Canada, apart from the United States, would now be tested at Canadian airports for the novel coronavirus disease, regardless of vaccination status.
Recall, on Tuesday, Eons Intelligence reported that the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) denied claims that the new Omicron COVID-19 variant has been detected in Nigeria.
This was after the Canadian Government had announced that it had quarantined three persons who visited Nigeria and later tested positive to the Omicron variant.
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