Our Correspondent :
Some 33 Bangladeshis, who returned from India on Friday night through Benapole border in Jashore, have been sent to institutional quarantine as they didn’t have Covid-19 negative certificates with them.
All the 33 returnees are cancer and heart patients, said Mohsin Uddin, officer-in-charge of Benapole Port Immigration Police.
The OC said a total of 342 Bangladeshis returned to the country through
Some 33 Bangladeshis, who returned from India on Friday night through Benapole border in Jashore, have been sent to institutional quarantine as they didn’t have Covid-19 negative certificates with them.
All the 33 returnees are cancer and heart patients, said Mohsin Uddin, officer-in-charge of Benapole Port Immigration Police.
The OC said a total of 342 Bangladeshis returned to the country through
Benapole last night and of them, 33 were sent to quarantine at Jashore General Hospital on Saturday morning for not having Covid-19 negative certificates with them.
They were staying in India for two to three months for treatment, our Benapole correspondent reports, quoting the OC.
Sumon Sen, medical officer of Benapole Port Immigration, said as per the directive of the foreign ministry, Covid-19 negative certificate has been made mandatory from December 1 for anyone coming to Bangladesh from India.
“Those who are not carrying the certificates are being sent to quarantine at Jasore General Hospital,” said the medical officer.
