Health Minister Mohammed Nasim on Thursday said they had already asked the authorities to strictly screen incoming passengers from Singapore. “Our director general for health has visited (Shahjalal International Airport) and seen the screening process,” the minister said speaking at a seminar in Dhaka. His comment followed Singapore Ministry of Health’s report that they found 10 Bangladesh nationals among the Zika-infected people in the country. Following the global Zika outbreak, the health department earlier this year had set up a special device that records temperature of passengers when they pass through the archways. The disease also does not spread person to person through respiratory droplets.

Source: bd News24 September 01, 2016 14:37 UTC