Lebanon's ministry of health has disclosed that 25 persons on board a flight that arrived in the country's capital, Beirut from Kano on Wednesday May 6, have tested positive for Coronavirus.

The Middle East Airlines had been directed by the Lebanese government to evacuate its citizens from foreign countries in early April.

The Ministry of Health in its statement on Wednesday, said 25 people tested positive for Coronavirus after a test was carried out on passengers on board a flight that left Kano on May 5.

While the affected passengers will be taken to the hospital for treatment, those who tested negative will be quarantined and also re-examined if they show Coronavirus symptoms.

The statement reads in part;

“The Ministry of Public Health announces that it has been confirmed that 25 positive cases with COVID-19 were recorded among the passengers on board the flight that arrived from Nigeria,” it said.

“Accordingly, the affected cases will be transferred to the hospital with an emphasis on the application of strict domestic quarantine for negative cases, knowing that they will be followed up daily by the Ministry and whoever shows any symptoms will be referred to the hospital for re-examination.”

Lebanon has recorded 784 confirmed cases of Coronavirus and 25 deaths so far.

Source: https://www.nairafame.com/2020/05/25-passengers-on-flight-from-kano-to.html

Who allowed the plane to leave from kano? Fire them..

Kano again?

Something tells me some elites might be leaving this country to go get treatment outside Nigeria. Whoever knew chartered flights leave thru not very popular Kano airport

Does it mean that in every 100 person in kano that 90 have coronavirus

The air inside the passenger cabin of commercial airliners, is generally 50%-70% recycled air, in order to strike a balance between passenger comfort on one hand, and fuel cost savings on the other

https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/43702/how-much-air-is-recirculated-vs-bleed-air-injected-in-modern-airliners-cabin

That recycled air is filtered, but the filtration mesh is not capable of excluding the Corona virus, and that means that any airborne diseases suffered by even one passenger, are very likely to infect most, if not all the others aboard the ill fated flight.

Rushing to board a commercial passenger aircraft during ANY global pandemic, can easily become a suicide mission.