Only 17 of 860 foreign returnees quarantined in Chowgachha

Only an insignificant portion of the returnees from abroad in Jashore district went in home quarantine.

In Pabna, a mobile court made a man and his family to stay in home quarantine after allegation that the man, falling sick after returning from workplace in Dhaka, was moving outside. 

Eight hundred sixty Bangladeshis returned from foreign countries to their homes in Chowgachha upazila of Jashore in last one month but only 17 people are in home quarantine, report our Benapole correspondent.

 Police, however, started looking for the returnees after the home ministry gave the returnees' list to the police yesterday.

 "We are trying to know the whereabouts of returnees to make sure that they are quarantined," said Rifat Khan Rajib, officer-in-charge of Chowgachha Police Station.

Dr Lutfunnahar, Chowgachha upazila health officer, said, "Of the seventeen people who were put in home quarantine, nine have already completed their quarantine period. Many other overseas returnees who are staying with their families are hiding information."

 In Jashore, more than 23 thousand people have returned home from different foreign countries in last one month but only 332 of them were sent to home quarantine, said district administration officials, referring to the home ministry's information.

Our Pabna Correspondent reports: A total of 631 people in Pabna, most of them returnees from aboard, have been kept in home quarantine so far, said sources at the district's 'special cell' dealing with coronavirus cases.

Of them, new 109 people were included in the list of home quarantine yesterday.

 "All the 631 people are under close observation of the health department," Dr Abdur Rahim of Pabna civil surgeon's office, also coordinator of the cell, told The Daily Star.

On Sunday afternoon, a mobile court put a family in home quarantine in Pabna's Chatmohar upazila as a member of the family fell ill after returning from the capital, said Dr Shuaibur Rahman, Chatmohar upazila health and family planning officer.

 "He along with three members of his family returned home last week and since then he has been suffering from fever and cough," he said.