Halt All Flights To and From UK Until This New Strain of COVID-19 is Curtailed – Again Atiku Warns FG

By Chris Udochukwu

Abuja (Precise Post) – The Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2019 general election and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has again warned the federal government to temporarily halt all flights to and from the UK until this new strain of COVID-19 is brought under control.

Turaki Adamawa recalled that the reason Nigeria took a harder than necessary hit during the first wave of the #COVID19 virus was that the Federal Government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians.

Atiku who reminded that our health sector is not sufficiently prepared to handle a sudden and unpredictable surge of this pandemic, gave the warning in a series of tweets.

The tweets read:

The reason Nigeria took a harder than necessary hit during the first wave of the #COVID19 virus is that the Federal Government failed to heed the warnings of well-meaning Nigerians, like myself and others, to shut down our borders once the virus became a pandemic.

Hindsight is 20/20. Nevertheless, we must learn from history, or we stand the risk of repeating it.

The new strain of COVID19 that has erupted in the United Kingdom, and specifically, London, can add to Nigeria’s health emergency if we do not act with an abundance of caution and temporarily halt all flights to and from the UK until this new strain is brought under control.

Already, prudent nations are taking prompt action, and Nigeria must take necessary precautions due to the volume of air traffic between Nigerian airports and London, where this new strain has erupted.

We must face the reality that our health sector is not sufficiently prepared to handle a sudden and unpredictable surge of this pandemic. We have already lost lives needlessly. We need not lose more.

In the case of this virus, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Precise Post recalls that Atiku Abubakar was one of the former Nigerian leaders who called on the federal government to take proactive steps to close the airspace in and out of countries where the COVID-19 pandemic are prevalent.