The Nigerian government has announced the date of resumption of international flights in Nigeria.
The minister of aviation, Hadi Sirika, announced the new date for resumption of flights at the bi-weekly Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday.
He said the airports will open in batches beginning with Lagos and Abuja.
The Nigerian government has announced that international flights will resume on 29 August 2020.
President Muhammad Buhari had in March ordered the suspension of international flights to curb the influx of imported cases of the virus in the country.
While local flights were also suspended, they have resumed for about a month as the country joins the rest of the world to battle COVID-19.
Nigeria has recorded over 40,000 COVID-19 cases with less than a thousand deaths so far.
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