The Federal Government has evacuated 269 stranded Nigerians from India.
According to the Nigerians in Diaspora commission NIDCOM who tweeted about it on their twitter page, the evacuees arrived in the country from India in the early hours of Saturday.
According to NIDCOM, 103 of the evacuees arrived in Lagos and 166 others landed in Abuja at about 2am, after a few hours of delay.
According to Gabriel Odu of NIDCOM Media Department,
All Evacuees now on Compulsory 14 days SELF ISOLATION according to the new Protocol by the Presidential Task Force on #Covid_19.
All tested negative before boarding and are to be re tested within 72 hours at an NCDC designated testing centre
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