blowjohn:



Oga.
All those measures are not preventive.
They only try to detect.
Dont u know that u can have the virus but wont have a fever?
See, if u travel from china or italy to the US, u will be quarantined sharp sharp.
All those thermal stuff to me is just eye service.
A thousand people from China will also walk pass that machine asymptomatic (without symptoms)....and boom! U know the rest.

ipobantidote

Jahwinaboy:
Only in Abuja airport? What about Muritala Airport in Lagos? Why didn't thermal scan detect the Italian? Nigerians are just like the entire Africans who haven't been affected. More efforts

CrudeSon:
The worst set of people that tarnish their country is Nigeria, government this and that!!what have we done to help the government?

God bless Nigeria though our present government need to step up

IpobAntidote:


First, there are no flights from and to china from the US directly as of today. If you travel from china to say Vietnam and catch a flight to the US, you can easily enter the US as long as you don't acknowledge ever been in china.
So the same system is working at MMA, they ask on the form where are the places you have been recently. If China is one of them, then they will pull you to the side.

spiritmasquerad:

When was the last time you went to an train station not to talk of airport but you want when it everywhere b4 you believe. I pray it affects you first so you start thinking

IpobAntidote:
Ok

I landed at MMA from the US on Delta last week and this man is right on the money. At MMA we were made fill a full page questionnaire regardless of which passport you are using for entry. On arrival, they collected the forms and checked for temperature abnormalities. Also, I noticed a monitor that is taking our temperature as we walk closer to the officers.
I'm impressed with the level of preparation at MMA. There was zero precautions while leaving from Atlanta airport, zero precaution.

SaintLucia:
I'm not cursing, just read my comment and say YES if na true u dey talk or admit my prayer if na LIE u dey yan simple as ABC.

CanadaOrBust:


Pure eye service. Just another avenue of taking bribe - you’d be detained for having high temp unless u pay.
Only real solution is automatic quarantine, which Nigeria can’t do because they have no facilities.

blowjohn:



Can thermal whatever detect symptoms?
We are telling them to quarantine all travellers arriving from infected countries they are yarning nonsense.
Was that not why the Italian guy brought the virus here?

tsephanyah:
Some mentally deranged people here shouting Nigeria is not prepared.
you are screened by a thermal imaging machine, which you may not notice. Coming back into Abuja, you are given a form to fill while still in the plane. The form collects your contact details, where you’ve been and your recent health status.

When you land, a health worker checks that you fully completed the form. If you didn’t, you are pulled aside and made to fill it. Once you pass the heath worker, there are signs asking whether you have been to China recently. Another health worker is watching the thermal images.

Another good one

At Immigration, all the Immigration, DSS and FAAN officials are all wearing face masks. There was nothing of such at Heathrow. At Dulles, an Immigration officer only asked me when last I visited China and took my finger prints. I was the one that asked for a hand sanitiser.

Those who think with their Hollywood infested brain read this..
London Underground trains where every sneeze is viewed suspiciously, I am encouraged by the efforts that @NCDCgov

God bless you Sir
God bless president Buhari
God bless Nigeria

blowjohn:


The ones being quarantined in plateau state, when did they arrive Nigeria? How did they reach plateau state without being quarantined?
What about the Italian guy? Cos when he arrive on 25th of February, italy already had the 2nd highest rate of infection.
Why wasn't he put aside?
Again dont forget that they said it was becos he showed no symptoms as at that time of passing through the airport.
What does that tell us?
These guys are not serious at all.

Rabbitcartel:


Some people will never understand, they believe everything they hear, I had to modidy my post because ignorant pple keep quoting me.. all these are politics, nigerians will never learn to read behind d lines. If its on nairaland or linda ikeji den its true..

Jahwinaboy:
Only in Abuja airport? What about Muritala Airport in Lagos? Why didn't thermal scan detect the Italian? Nigerians are just like the entire Africans who haven't been affected. More efforts

blowjohn:


The ones being quarantined in plateau state, when did they arrive Nigeria? How did they reach plateau state without being quarantined?
What about the Italian guy? Cos when he arrive on 25th of February, italy already had the 2nd highest rate of infection.
Why wasn't he put aside?
Again dont forget that they said it was becos he showed no symptoms as at that time of passing through the airport.
What does that tell us?
These guys are not serious at all.


It tells us that this thing is not by symptoms or by thermal detectors or by filling forms.
It is by setting aside those arriving from infected countries in a state of quarantine whether u have symptoms or not, then collecting blood samples to determine if the virus is present in the person before he or she can be released into the public.

slimthugchimee2:


You want to quarantine 100s of people daily amounting to thousands in just few weeks? Nawa

OgunLaakaye:
This is a patriot saying it as it is.

I know this observations will be bad news to some lots who have used previous threads to lambast The Federal Republic of Nigeria and the administration of His Excellence President Mohammadu Buhari (GCFR)

Some people who have never even seen the painting of an Airport, how much more been to an airport or step foot on a different continent had the audacity and effrontery to lambast the FGN. They be judging Nigeria from what the watch in Hollywood movies.

Once again, Kudos to the patriot.

CanadaOrBust:


Pure eye service. Just another avenue of taking bribe - you’d be detained for having high temp unless u pay.
Only real solution is automatic quarantine, which Nigeria can’t do because they have no facilities.

CanadaOrBust:


This is my country that I actually love despite everything. I have no reason to lie. MMA is the most corrupt airport I know

slimthugchimee2:


You want to quarantine 100s of people daily amounting to thousands in just few weeks? Nawa

Powersurge:


For a starter, I personally felt fed did not do enough in preventing the first case. It's not a crime if NIgeria successfully repel any case of ConViD-19.

Secondly, those countries' health systems are light years ahead of ours.

It makes sense for people to be apprehensive against a very leathal virus: of which an outbreak could lead to massive lost of lives (considering our level of technology).

Once again I am not impressed with the idea of allowing people from ConViD-19 infested countries to enter NIgeria by merely filling forms.

Rabbitcartel:


Let the fools continue to get fooled.. So the govt sets up a thermal detector n say its preventive measures against corona virus.. Firstly how many infected countries have these detectors? ? Na only nigeria fit afford am abi?? I pointed that out and see as some idiots start dey place generational curses on themselves..

Kennydoc:


I noticed the scenarios at NAIA and Heathrow in the past one week, but there are a few things we need to consider here.

How many Covid-19 patients and carriers have ever been detected with thermal scanners? What is the detection rate? Most carriers look and seem perfectly normal before they get sick, while still being infective, which means you may not achieve anything with those thermal scanners.

As for the questionnaires, I guess we have to assume that everybody is sincere. Would you have answered yes if you had fever in the past 2 weeks even if you knew exactly what caused it? Imagine you travelled for just one week to sort out something very critical, and you end up being quarantined in undignifying conditions on account of fever or other symptoms that have nothing to do with Covid-19.

Heathrow is the 3rd busiest Airport in the world. Atlanta has the busiest. You can imagine the volume of passengers that pass through these airports daily. Why waste time, manpower and resources on an activity that will most likely not produce any meaningful result? Imagine that despite the scanners and questionnaire ish, an Italian still imported the disease into Nigeria and wasn't detected. He got unwell within 24 hours or so after arriving into Nigeria, yet the airport screening couldn't detect him.
This is probably the reason why American and British governments don't want to waste time and money on the so-called airport screening.

BafanaBafana:

Anything that affects the elites is always taken seriously in Nigeria.
let boko haram start targeting politicians only and see how they will be neutralized

SaintLucia:
U are just perambulating. I have given you an option but you are yet to answer my question. If na true u dey talk make corona hate u but if na lie make all the virus in this world locate you simple as ABC.

frubben:
Hmmm nice one.



But it's can still be a paid advert . I no trust my country one bit.



But if it's true kudos

staga:


These measures were in place from January. You have obviously not travelled recently, so you would not know.

IpobAntidote:


It's definitely BURST for you with this kind of warped thinking.

IpobAntidote:


You absolutely made a lot of good points. But in the case of Nigeria where you can count the numbers of flights coming into Lagos on your fingers on daily basis, it is ok to take such measures. We do not have good record tracking system hence its important to take every possible ways to track incoming passe passengers..

kevoh:

No, it's not a paid advert. We've actually had thermal imaging and other heat detectors at Abuja airport way before COVID-19/coronavirus. The equipment were brought right after the ebola case of Patrick Sawyer. I know this because I've seen this thermal equipment countless times while working at abuja airport.

It was a matter of bringing them back to use the moment we realized coronavirus was in Nigeria.

FortifiedCity:


Jonathan my hero was also prepared during the Ebola ish.

For Buhari, you may survive Coronavirus, only to come and face insecurity problems