Staff Reporter :
172 more Bangladeshi students in the Hubei province in China have appealed for help to the Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing seeking their immediate evacuation from virus hit Asian country
They have been blocked for two weeks facing miserable condition due to food and water crisis, said a relative of the students.
They have requested the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to take the initiative to take them back to the country as quick as possible..
The Bangladeshi students have not been allowed to move out of the University Hall since January 23. They said, more alarming for us is when we see our Chinese classmates infected with corona virus is taken to the hospital by ambulance.
Meanwhile, the Bangladesh mission in Beijing has been directed to take up the issue with the Chinese authorities in order to bring home the 171 Bangladeshis from Hubei by a chartered plane, said the cabinet secretary.
‘I think that the airlines incurring losses would suspend their flights on their own in the prevailing situation,’ he added.
China’s corona virus epidemic death toll travelled beyond 360 on Monday, with the global concern about the outbreak deepening and countries closing their borders with China.
Speaking at a press conference at the IEDCR office, Meerjady said that the eight people were taken back from Kurmitola Hospital to Ashkona Hajj Camp, where the government kept all the Bangladeshis from Wuhan in isolation.
Another Bangladeshi, who was taken to the Kurmitola hospital on Sunday night after being detected with fever was doing well, she said.
