{"id":1392,"date":"2020-05-10T23:41:25","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/?p=1392"},"modified":"2020-05-10T23:41:25","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:41:25","slug":"covid-19-160-nigerians-evacuated-from-us-quarantined-in-abuja-on-arrival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/covid-19-160-nigerians-evacuated-from-us-quarantined-in-abuja-on-arrival\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: 160 Nigerians evacuated from US quarantined in Abuja on arrival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 160 stranded Nigerians who arrived the country from the United States, Sunday morning, have been moved into quarantine in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>The US returnees which included eight infants, were the first batch of the 700 Nigerians who registered for the emergency evacuation flights in the US.<\/p>\n<p>They were stranded in the US due to the coronavirus pandemic which caused the US government to close its airports against foreign travel, but the Federal Government had arranged a special flight to evacuate Nigerian citizens on a bilateral agreement with the US government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thedailyleaks.com\/vp-pence-spokesperson-katie-miller-11-us-secret-service-agents-test-positive-for-covid-19\/\">Boris Johnson eases lockdown, tells people to go back to work, in plan to restart UK economy<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>They arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, around 11.05 am on Sunday, aboard an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 787 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The plane conveying them was said to have departed the Newark International Airport, New Jersey, Saturday around 8:20 p.m. local time (1:20 a.m. on Sunday Nigerian time), and arrived around 11:05 a.m.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ET Flight 8509 conveying 160 Nigerian evacuees from the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/US?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#US<\/a> has safely arrived Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/StayHomeSaveLives?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#StayHomeSaveLives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PTFCOVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PTFCOVID19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NigeriaGov?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@NigeriaGov<\/a> @DigiCommsNG<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Geoffrey Onyeama (@GeoffreyOnyeama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeoffreyOnyeama\/status\/1259442545949642753?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GeoffreyOnyeama\/status\/1259442545949642753?s=19\">Geoffrey Onyeama<\/a>, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, had earlier said the evacuees on their arrival, would be quarantined for 14 days before leaving for their respective destinations.<\/p>\n<p>A returnee, narrating his experience, said, the condition given them for the isolation process was favourable, adding that they were checked into a hotel at the Garki area of Abuja, and that their evacuation process too was splendid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The 160 stranded Nigerians who arrived the country from the United States, Sunday morning, have been moved into quarantine in Abuja. 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