Coronavirus: Nigerian returnees arrive Seme border

The much-awaited Nigerian citizens in Ivory Coast on Wednesday arrived at the Seme Border Post.

According to reports, the 67 returnees which consisted of women, children and a few men arrived around 4:00 pm in a luxurious bus with registration number Osun XA 240 EJG.

Officials from Lagos State Ministry of Health arrived Seme border post in three Toyota Coaster buses and took the returnees to isolation centres in Badagry for tests and quarantine.

Precautions to curtail the spread of the novel coronavirus as Ivory Coast currently has 345 confirmed cases.

Earlier, 17 out of 127 Nigerians who returned to Osun state from Ivory Coast tested positive for the virus.