Screening of passengers of all flights started at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) as coronavirus cases were detected in more than two dozens of countries including China.
“Passengers from different countries have started filling up health cards and are being fully screened at the airport before their departure,” said Prof Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Saturday.
“We’ve taken decision of screening all passengers as people of many countries are being detected with coronavirus,” she said.
Prof Dr Flora also said that IEDCR sent a letter to the airport authorities in this regard on Thursday and the process began on Friday, according to UNB.
Meanwhile, IEDCR has set up four hotline numbers for creating awareness among people about novel coronavirus.
The hotline numbers are: 01937110011, 01937000011, 01927711784 and 01927711785.
Earlier, on January 21, the authorities of HSIA and Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram started screening passengers coming from China following the outbreak of coronavirus.
