The federal government has commenced screening for Ebola virus at Lagos Airport to ensure that the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) is not retransmitted into Nigeria. The Airport Regional Manager, South-west, Mrs. Victoria Shin-Aba in an interview with aviation journalists said that apart from the thermal screening machines, the agency also had public health emergency programme put in place for that purpose by the management.
According to FAAN officials at the airport, all passengers coming in from West Africa and other countries around the world are constantly screened by the thermal screening machines deployed to the D and E wings of arrivals at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos even without the knowledge of the passengers.
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