A total of 152 Bangladeshi nationals have returned home from Italy, the European epicentre of the coronavirus pandemic.
An Emirates flight carrying the evacuees landed in Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 8:15am on Sunday, bdnews24.com reported.
They were then taken to Ashkona Hajj Camp at 9:30am and will be quarantined there for two weeks, said Dr Shahriar Sajjat, a physician at the airport's health centre.
No symptoms of novel coronavirus were detected in their bodies during preliminary tests, Dr Shahriar told the news agency.
Some of the returnees will also be taken to a makeshift quarantine camp in Gazipur’s Meghdubi due to shortage of accommodation at Ashkona Hajj Camp, he said.
On Saturday morning, 142 Bangladeshis arrived in the country from Italy. Later, two separate night flights carrying 31 and 58 people respectively landed in Bangladesh. All the returnees are being kept in Ashkona and Meghdubi quarantine camps.
