Chairman, Ministerial Experts Advisory Committee on COVID-19 Response, Professor Oyewale Tomori, says no fewer than 1,900 Nigerian travellers were in the last five months found to be COVID-19 positive on arrival at their international destinations including the UK, Ghana and Mali despite negative results before departure from the country, IgbereTV reports.
Professor Tomori, who spoke at the 2021 Health Week of the Nigerian Union of Allied Health Professionals (NUAHP), University College Hospital, Ibadan Chapter, said that the high number of positive results recorded by international health authorities outside the country implied that some Nigerians were falsifying COVID-19 test results.
He stated: “There are two ways to look at it; one it is either they left the country with fake results or it is still possible that they could have been negative a day or two before leaving the country. However, that large number of positives on arrival at international countries gives the impression that many of them left Nigeria with forged results.”
Professor Tomori said faking COVID-19 test results for travels was not without adverse implications including the continued spread of the virus around the globe and Nigeria losing its credibility.
