Africa Press-Nigeria:
The Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 has commenced preparation for discharge of Dubai and London returnees, it was learnt.
The Government had brought back 678 stranded Nigerians from United Arab Emirate, 265 from United Kingdom and 160 from the United States in three different batches.
On Tuesday, another batch of 292 arrived from Saudi Arabia bringing the number of stranded Nigerians abroad evacuated since the global lockdown occasioned by the Covid-19 pandemic to 970.
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Geoffrey Onyeama, stated preparation for the discharge of batch one and two has commenced.
He said: “I just want to give an update because we are coming to the end of the 14 days quarantine period for the first and second batches of evacuees.
