Federal Aviation Authority, FAAN, swiftly mobilizes equipment and personnel to screen passengers against a strange Chinese virus.
They include thermal scanners which monitor body temperature and take pictures of passengers.
Nigeria used the equipment in 2014 to successfully battle the spread of Ebola virus.
FAAN spokesperson, Mrs. Henrietta Yakubu, said the measure follows recent news of the outbreak of a Chinese virus in many countries.
In a statement Mrs. Yakubu, specifically referred to “a deadly virus known as coronavirus” which broke out in China.
The virus has killed 30 persons in China and is feared to be spreading to neighboring Japan, Thailand and South Korea.
The thermal scanners will track and isolate passengers who show signs of high temperature.
FAAN and the Federal Ministry of Health, she said, have tested the adequacy of the medical equipment and process at the airports.
They found them adequate to “prevent the importation of the viruses through the airports.”
“Passengers are therefore advised to submit themselves for routine quarantine tests whenever they are asked to,” she said.
The decision to act comes on the heels of the announcement that a case of coronavirus has been confirmed in the United States.
The carrier is a young man in his 30s who returned to his country from the Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.
The man has been quarantined at the Carter Evans Hospital in Everett, Washington.
FAAN mobilizes against Chinese virus
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