7 quarantined in Noakhali after locals bar Dhaka returnees from entering village
A 25-year-old woman and her family returning from Dhaka were not allowed to enter their village in Mohammadpur union at Noakhali's Chatkhil upazila yesterday.
The party of seven -- the 25-year-old, her family, and their private car driver -- were all placed under institutional quarantine at a local government school after police questioned her and found that she was suffering from fever, reports our Noakhali correspondent quoting Officer-in-Charge of Chatkhil Police Station Anwarul Islam.
The woman's samples will be collected and sent for testing at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) today [Tuesday], said Dr Tamjid Hossain, coordinator of the upazila coronavirus prevention committee.
Chatkhil Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Didarul Alam confirmed that locals already knew of their arrival and stopped them from entering, forcing them to turn their car around.
They came to Noakhali from the capital's Gendaria area in a rented private car, the OC added.
When locals barred the family from entering the village, they turned the car around and tried to go to a relative's house in Chatkhali city. But police stopped the car at Kachari Bazar at the border of two upazilas, Shonaimuri and Chatkhali, said Mohammadpur No.5 Union Parishad Chairman Shahid Ullah.
They are currently under quarantine at the premises of a government school.
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