42 returnees from UK sent to quarantine

Forty-two passengers were put under a mandatory 14-day institutional quarantine after they landed at Sylhet Osmani International Airport from London yesterday afternoon.

The flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG-202) reached Sylhet from Heathrow Airport with 48 passengers in total. Among them, 42 landed in Sylhet while others departed for Dhaka.

After primary health check-up, the passengers were taken to a hotel in Sylhet city via several BRTC buses amid tight security, said Shamma Labiba Arnob, assistant commissioner (Covid-19 and media cell) of Sylhet district administration.

"If a passenger does not like the accommodation, we have arranged accommodation at another hotel for them. All the passengers are bound to stay at institutional quarantine at their own cost," the official said.

They are not allowed to meet any of their relatives at the hotels, she said, adding that security has been beefed up so that the passengers cannot go out either.