All passengers arriving from the UK and other European countries will have to be in institutional quarantine for 14 days at government facilities or government-approved hotels at their own costs.

This will take effect on March 31 and continue until further notice, Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh announced yesterday.

Caab came up with the announcement taking into consideration the deterioration of Covid-19 situation in the country and elsewhere, it said in a statement.

After the 14-day quarantine period, passengers will have to take Covid-19 tests and will be allowed to leave if the results come out to be negative, it said.

Passengers from other countries will have to be in home quarantine for 14 days. They must follow this rule strictly, the statement said. "They will be screened at the airport. If any Covid-19 symptoms are suspected or detected, they too will have to stay at the government facilities or government-approved hotels for the 14-day quarantine period," it said.

Caab also said whether or not passengers got vaccine shots, they must show the airport authorities PCR-based Covid-19 negative certificates while arriving or departing from the country.

The test must be done within 72 hours of the flight's departure.

On December 28 last year, the government had decided that all UK returnees must be in a 14-day institutional quarantine in the wake of the spread of a new variant of Covid-19 in the United Kingdom.

Later, the duration of quarantine was reduced to seven day.