A chartered Jazeera Airways flight landed with them at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 6.25pm on Tuesday, Group Captain AHM Touhid-ul Ahsan, the airport director, told Dhaka Tribune. Another flight ferrying more Bangladeshis stranded abroad will land at 1.30am from the United Arab Emirates (UAE), he added. Flights from Bahrain, Bhutan, Hong Kong, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Maldives, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, Singapore, Thailand, Turkey, UAE, and the United Kingdom (UK) will face this restriction. However, special flights, air ambulances, emergency flights, and cargo flights will remain out of the purview of the ban, according to CAAB. On March 21, Bangladesh cancelled all international passenger flights from 10 countries until March 31, which was later extended till April 7.

Source: Dhaka Tribune April 28, 2020 15:45 UTC