Twenty-seven  more stranded Bangladeshis on Friday returned home from India through Darshana Joynagar checkpost  in Chuadanga.

They entered the country with No Objection Certificates (NOC) from the Bangladesh High Commission. All of them tested negative for corona in the rapid antigen test upon their arrival.

Later, twenty-five  of them have been shifted to Chuadanga Technical Training Center (TTC) while two sick patients have been shifted to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital Quarantine center.

They will stay 14 days in these places as part of institutional quarantine protocols.

SI Abdul Alim, immigration in-charge of Darshana Joynagar checkpost confirmed the information to UNB.

A total of 1040 stranded Bangladeshis have returned home from India through this checkpost in the past 39 days, he added.