Coronavirus: FG Approves Final Evacuation Flight From US

Federal Government has approved the ninth and last evacuation flight for stranded Nigerians in the United States amid coronavirus travel restrictions.

This was made known on Monday by the Consul General of Nigeria in New York, Benaoyagha Okoyen, in a statement on behalf of the country’s missions in the U.S.

The statement said, that the flight is scheduled to convey the evacuees from New Jersey on August 20 to both Abuja and Lagos.

This would come after the seventh and eight evacuation flights scheduled for August 15 and August 19 respectively from Houston, Texas, to Lagos.

Government had so far evacuated 1,739 stranded citizens in six special flights from the U.S. which is witnessing a second wave of coronavirus infections.

That country’s COVID-19 tallies as at Monday stood at 5,044,864 infections with 162,938 deaths, according to data compiled by the John Hopkins University of Medicine.