A total of 121 more
expatriate Bangladeshi workers returned home from Kuwait
while 109 Japanese nationals, who had been stuck here due to flight suspension
amid COVID-19 pandemic left for Toïo by separate chartered flights on Tuesday.
A chartered aircraft of Jajeera Airways flight landed at
Hayrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) at 6:25
PM carrying 121 Bangladeshi citiæens from Kuwait,
HISA director Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan told the media.
Kuwait
bore the cost of the flight to send back the second batch of Bangladeshi
nationals as a total of 126 expatriate workers first arrived here on Monday
from the oil-rich nation that took decongestion policy leveling migrant workers
like some other middle-eastern countries fearing rise of infection of the
deadly virus.
As per the government decision, after arriving here, all
returnee workers will undergo a medical checkup at the airport and to be sent
to 14-day institutional quarantine under management of the Armed Forces
Division (AFD).
Earlier in the morning, 109 Japanese nationals left here by
Biman Bangladesh Airlines aircraft chartered by Japan Embassy in Dhaka.
ÒOur flight operated by Dreamliner Boeing 787-8 took off
from HSIA at 9 am today on boarding 107
adults and 2 infants for Narita International
Airport near Toïo,Ó BimanÕs deputy
general manager (PR) Tahera Khondoker told BSS.
She said the BimanÕs aircraft is scheduled to fly back Dhaka
at 11:30 pm tonight carrying some
Bangladeshi nationals, who have been stranded there due to flight suspension.
This is the second chartered flight for repatriation of
Japanese nationals, as on April 2, a total of 327 Japanese citiæens first left Dhaka
since the global outbreak of the lethal virus while Japan
embassy here chartered another BimanÕs flight to operate Dhaka-Toïo-Dhaka
flight on April 30.
Since international flights remained suspended after mid-March,
different countries, including the USA,
the UK, Canada,
Turkey, Australia,
Japan, Singapore,
Malaysia, Bhutan,
and different European countries, so far, operated several special chartered
flights to repatriate their citiæens from Dhaka.
Bangladesh
government also facilitated chartered flights to bring back its nationals from
a number of countries, including India,
Singapore and Thailand.
Meanwhile, on Monday Bangladesh
extended its ongoing ban on flight operation for the fourth consecutive time
till May 7 to and from all European countries and the nations that restricted
the entry of Bangladeshis to their territories as well as on all domestic routes
over the coronavirus fear. Currently, regular commercial flights are being
operated from Bangladesh
to China only.
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