ABUJA, Aug 6 (Reuters) - Nigeria will reopen for
international air travel in a matter of weeks, the aviation
minister said on Thursday, without giving a specific date for
the resumption after months of closure due to the global
coronavirus pandemic.
"It will be in weeks rather than in months," Minister of
Aviation Hadi Sirika told a regular briefing in the capital
Abuja on coronavirus.
Nigeria began to close its airports in March, a month after
Africa's most populous country confirmed its first coronavirus
case. Domestic air travel restarted last month.
The country has 44,890 confirmed coronavirus cases and more
than 900 deaths, figures from the Nigeria Centre for Disease
Control show.