A total of 375 expatriate Bangladeshis, including four doctors, have so far died of coronavirus or with its symptoms in Saudi Arabia since the outbreak of the pandemic yesterday (Thursday), BSS reports.
Disclosing the Bangladeshi death toll in Saudi Arabia, the ambassador expressed his deep condolence at demise of all Bangladeshi nationals including expatiates with the virus while attending an online meeting with officials of Bangladesh embassy in Riyad, consulate in Jeddah and Hajj missions, according to a message received in Dhaka.
The ambassador said Bangladesh missions in Saudi Arabia so far provided food support to 30,000 distressed expatriate Bangladeshis in the oil-rich nation that hosts around 2.1 million migrant Bangladeshi nationals.
Besides, he said 60 physicians have been providing telemedicine support to Bangladeshi expatriates residing across Saudi Arabia while the Bangladesh missions there are facilitating expatriates in hospital admissions.
The Bangladesh missions in Saudi Arabia also remain open for providing passport services to the expatriates as well as for facilitating chartered aircraft to repatriate Bangladeshi nationals who opt to go back home in this crisis period.
The Bangladesh envoy thanked the Saudi Arabian King to provide free of cost treatment to Bangladeshi patients with the coronavirus.
In Bangladesh, the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases exceeded 100,000 on Thursday as 3803 more people tested positive overnight while 38 more fatalities were reported during the period, raising the death toll from the pandemic to 1343.
