Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport
Two oversees returnees sent to hospital from Shahjalal Airport
Two overseas returnees were sent to Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital on Saturday morning from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for having high body temperature.
Police stamping quarantine info on incoming passengers
Immigration police at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have started stamping quarantine information on the hands of incoming passengers with irremovable ink to ensure that they remain in home-quarantine.
The seals bear the date until which they will have to stay in home-quarantine, said a senior officer of immigration police at the airport.
The immigration police started stamping the seals on the wrist and arms of passengers from Thursday as the government made a 14-day home-quarantine mandatory for the overseas returnees, he said requesting anonymity.
The government on March 14 announced that people coming to Bangladesh from coronavirus-infected countries will be in a compulsory 14-day quarantine. Anyone violating the directive will face action.
“We put the seal on hands of passengers so that they could remember that they have to voluntarily stay in self-quarantine for the next 14 days. Irremovable ink is being used for this purpose.”
Bangladesh on Friday announced the detection of three new coronavirus patients, raising the number of such cases in the country to 20.
Country’s first death from the coronavirus was recorded on March 18.
The death toll from the coronavirus or COVID-19 has reached 10,495 globally as of Friday night.
It has so far infected 255,904 people around the world, according to worldometer.
COVID-19 is affecting 183 countries and territories around the world and one international conveyance (the Diamond Princess cruise ship harboured in Yokohama, Japan).
Seven foreign-returnees sent to hospital from airport
Seven overseas-returnees were sent to Kuwait-Bangladesh Maitree Hospital from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday as their body temperature was found high during thermal screening.
COVID-19 screening at Dhaka airport falls short, shares returning Bangladeshi
A Bangladeshi international communication professional who has recently returned home from the Philippines voiced deep concern at the overall handling of incoming passengers, including lax screening, at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport amid the growing coronavirus fear.
417 stranded Bangladeshis return from Saudi Arabia
A total of 417 stranded Bangladeshis, including eight infants, arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah by a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Tuesday afternoon.
417 Bangladeshis returned from Italy in two days
A total of 186 more Bangladeshi nationals returned home from Italy on Sunday, taking the total number of returnees from the worst coronavirus-hit country in Europe to 417 in the last two days.
Coronavirus outbreak: 152 Bangladeshis return from Italy
Another batch of 152 Bangladeshis returned home from Italy on Sunday morning.
23 Bangladeshis arrive from Delhi, none infected with coronavirus
Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals, quarantined in the suburbs of the Indian capital for 14 days, arrived home on Saturday afternoon.
Three int’l airports, one land port get five thermal scanners
The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has provided five thermal scanners for the country’s three international airports and a land port.
One held with gold worth Tk 1.5cr at Dhaka airport
A team of Dhaka Customs House arrested a man with 2.950 kgs of gold from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Wednesday night.