As the entire world struggles to survive under the siege of coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, governments of United States of America (USA) and Canada today evacuated their citizens residing in Nigeria.
While the USA evacuated 385 of her citizens residing in the country, Canada evacuated 200.
The airlifts were carried out with flights operated by Ethiopian Airlines
The USA bound flight was operated with a B777-300 which departed Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia enroute Washington DC.
While the Canada bound flight was operated with a B767 Aircraft.
The Canadians boarded their flights at Murtala Muhammed International, Lagos and Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja to Addis Ababa enroute Toronto , Canada.
It would be recalled that besides the two North American countries, France, Lebanon, United Kingdom and Germany are some of countries which have evacuated their citizens from Nigeria in the last one week following the out break of the dread disease.
