1,011 Bangladeshi workers return by special flights
Some 1,011 Bangladeshi migrant workers returned home from Qatar, Kuwait, Maldives and Nigeria by five special flights on Saturday and Friday.
Of them, 250 people who were staying in either prisons or detention camps in Qatar landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) around 9:30pm on Saturday by a special flight of Qatar Airways, said Akram, a doctor at the health desk of HSIA.
Besides, 265 people who were stranded in Maldives due to suspension of regular passenger flight operations returned home on the same evening by a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
Tahera Khandaker, deputy general manager (public relations) of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, said the flight from Malé landed at 6:18pm on Saturday.
Earlier on Friday, a total of 493 Bangladeshis returned home from Maldives and Kuwait by two separate flights, sources at the Dhaka Airport said.
A special flight of Ethiopian Airways brought back eight Bangladeshis from Nigeria that landed at 8:00pm at the Dhaka Airport, said Dr Akram.
Due to the Covid-19 situation, Bangladesh suspended regular flight operations in all international routes except for China since the middle of March.
As per the government decision, all the returnees would have to be sent to a 14-day institutional quarantine if they fail to show medical certificates at the airport on their arrival here.
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