SAN FRANCISCO, October 09, (THEWILL) – The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 has disclosed that the Nigeria Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) could impose a penalty on international airlines for flouting the aviation guidelines on the coronavirus pandemic.
The PTF had in August declared that airlines which fail to comply with international flight protocols, will be slammed with a $3,500 fine per passenger.
However, at the PTF briefing on Thursday, Minister of Aviation, Hadi Sirika disclosed that some airlines flew in 27 passengers into the country without Negative PCT Test results on COVID-19.
He said, “we had sadly some 27 cases in Abuja of passengers that did not comply with our guidelines on PCR negative result test. Some of them came with a rapid result test which is not accepted, some came with expired PCR result tests and others came with no PCR test at all. The protocol and procedure is that the airlines that have brought in these passengers will of course answer and will be dealt according to the law and for those violations; the NCAA will deal with them accordingly. All inbound flights are only allowed to have a maximum of 200 passengers while they can carry as much as they want outbound. If there is any review this will be advised by the task force.”
