Covid-19: UAE Stops All Transit Flights With Nigerian Passengers To Dubai
United Arab Emirates, UAE, has restricted all transit flights with Nigerian passengers into Dubai. This means all Nigerian passengers must fly directly from Nigeria to Dubai without stopping over in another country.
The UAE in a travel advisory titled, “Dubai Travel Protocol Update-Travel from Nigeria” disclosed this yesterday. This is a tactical ban of other foreign Airlines from carrying Nigerian Passengers as only Emirates flies directly to Dubai. Nigeria Air Peace airline also fly directly to Dubai through Sharjah Airport which is 15 minutes drive from Dubai.
All Nigerians who have visited home in the last 14 days will not be allowed to fly to Dubai through Nairobi-Kenya, Addis Ababa-Ethiopia, Cairo-Egypt, Kigali-Rwanda, amongst other. Other European countries are affected by this new policy issued by the UAE geared towards reducing the spread of Covid-19.
The travel advisory further explains that all “departing Nigerians to Dubai are required to obtain a negative COVID-19 certificate and the PCR must be conducted within 72 hours of the date of departure.”
