By Vincent Ikuomola, Abuja
The 292 Saudi Arabia evacuees have been discharged after 15 days in insolation in an Abuja hotel, The Nation reports.
They were all discharged on Wednesday morning after they tested negative for COVID-19 pandemic.
According to sources, the evacuees returned to their stations by road as the ban on local flight is still in place in the country.
The sources said the evacuees were arranged in fives per vehicle in line with the new travel protocol put in place by the Presidential Taskforce on Covid-19 pandemic.
The Saudi Arabia batch is the fourth batch to have arrived the country.
There discharge brings to 677 the number of evacuees have successfully completed their isolation on returning to the country.
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Three were said to have tested positive while one died.
The number of Nigerians evacuated stands at 1,257 since the global lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.
There are over 4,000 Nigerians scattered across various countries awaiting evacuation following the global lockdown in March.
Government has since suspended the evacuation process pending the introduction of a new evacuation protocol, which will see returnees doing testing five days to evacuation.
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