Staff Reporter :
A total of 417 stranded Bangladeshis, including eight infants, returned home on Tuesday from Jeddah of Saudi Arabia.
A special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines, carrying the passengers, arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 4:30 pm.
Sources at the airport said that almost all the passengers went to the KSA to perform Umrah. They were stranded in Saudi Arabia as the country suspended flight with different countries, including Bangladesh, to prevent the spread of COVID-19.
When contacted, in-charge of the Airport Health Camp, Shahriar Sajjad, said physicians are conducting screening of the 417 returnees.
On completion of the process, those who do not have any health complications will be allowed to return home on condition of staying in self-quarantine for 14 days, he said.
Bangladesh on Tuesday confirmed the detection of two more corona virus patients, taking the total number of cases to 10.
On Monday, IEDCR reported three new cases and confirmed that the virus has started transmitting locally.
The global death toll from corona virus or COVID-19 pandemic climbed to 7,164 on Tuesday. The disease has so far infected 182,550 people around the world, according to world meter.
