Two oversees returnees sent to hospital from HSIA

Two overseas returnees were sent to Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital on Saturday morning from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for having high body temperature.

“One of them is from Maldives while the other from Bahrain,” said a duty doctor at the airport, reports UNB.

A Malaysia-returnee on Thursday and two people from Saudi Arabia on Friday were directly sent to the hospital from the airport as they were screened with high body temperatures.

In the meantime, Bangladesh on Saturday cancelled all the international passenger flights until March 31 with 10 countries to be effective from 12 am on Sunday to restrict the spread of coronavirus in the country.

Bangladesh reported the country’s first death from coronavirus on March 18 as the total coronavirus cases now stand at 20.

The pandemic coronavirus has claimed the lives of 11,398 people worldwide as of Saturday.

It has so far infected 275,871 people around the world as of Saturday, according to worldometer.