The Lagos state government has placed 14 countries on its COVID-19 watchlist as a way to prevent a 3rd wave in the state. The state commissioner for health Prof. Akin Abayomi made the announcement yesterday during a media briefing.
The commissioner explained that travellers coming from other countries into Lagos state have been classified into three groups — the red countries, the amber countries, and the green countries. According to him, India, Brazil, and Turkey where new variants of COVID are causing an increase in infection rate are known as the ‘red countries’.
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According to him, the ‘amber countries’ are Canada, US, France, Germany, Netherlands, Togo, Ghana, Cameroun, Angola, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Green countries as countries with no records of variants from red countries and no clear increase in the number of daily confirmed cases.
“From the Lagos perspective, we’re also looking at what we describe as Amber Colour countries, where we know that mutants are circulating. And this is important for us to be able to define how strict our monitoring of your isolation at home and how your testing is performed. We are monitoring countries where we know the mutants are circulating, but the situation is still severe,”
“Our protocol for the management of inbound passengers from the Red Countries will include: a mandatory PCR test 72 hours before departure, PCR test post-arrival and a 14-day isolation in a government-approved facility paid for by the passenger,” he said. “Passengers of interests from the Amber Countries are also required to do PCR test 72 hours before departure, PCR test post-arrival and a mandatory seven days isolation at home which will be monitored by our logistics, surveillance and EkoTELEMED teams.”
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