The national coordinator of the Presidential Task Force on Control of COVID-19, Dr Sani Aliyu, said the August 29, 2020 resumption of international flights is not sacrosanct.
The national coordinator said this at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force in Abuja.
“We will spend a whole day to discuss international travel and how this will be done. We are grateful to CACOVID and its partners for helping to support this process, because it would help us to expedite opening of the airport.
And if I may clarify, we said from the 29th of August, we didn’t say on the 29th of August. So, very similar to what we did for the domestic. Don’t come back and say that we promised we will open on the 29th, that 29th is not sacrosanct but we will work towards it.“We will seriously try and deliver it but from the 29th as far as the PTF is concerned, if aviation comes to us and say they are ready from the 29th, we will say please go ahead. If they come back on the 28th, it is too early,” he said.