Red list Nigeria has fired back at countries that gave it that status over the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
The federal government has hit back at Canada, UK, Saudi Arabia and Argentina for banning Nigerians from entering their country.
According to the Peoples Gazette, a member of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 disclosed that they had reached an agreement with the ministry of aviation to place a ban on those countries in retaliation.
“We recommend that those countries, Canada, UK, Saudi Arabia and Argentina, be also put on red list. Just like they did to us.
“And if they don’t allow our citizens to go into their country, who are they coming with airlines to pick out of our country? They might as well stop coming,” the online newspaper said.
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Quoting a source who said he was sure that:“In the next three days, between now and Monday, or perhaps Tuesday maximum, all those countries will be put on red list.
“Once they are put on red list, which means they are banned, then of course their airlines will also be banned. I am so sorry we are going through difficult moment, but we have to do it in the interest of our country.
The Gazette explained that: “You cannot travel to the UK if you’ve been in a red list country in the previous 10 days unless you are a British or Irish national, have residence rights in the UK,” the British government’s website said.
“Children arriving in England from a red list country should not be travelling alone unless they are students in boarding school, higher education or further education,” the website added.
Also, Saudi Arabia, in a circular issued by the General Authority of Civil Aviation on December 8, banned non-citizens that have visited Nigeria in the past 14 days from entering the country.