Most of the 17 coronavirus patients in Bangladesh are returnees or their close contacts. All passengers coming to the airport were undergoing thermal screening and other tests, the director said. The travellers with no symptom of COVID-19 are asked to quarantine themselves at home for 14 days while those with high temperature are being sent to the hospital for further check, the official added. Around 7,500 passengers entered Bangladesh through the airport and nearly 4,000 left daily on an average in past three days, he said. The number of passengers using the airport daily had been around 30,000 daily before travel restrictions for the coronavirus outbreak were imposed, Touhid said.

Source: bd News24 March 19, 2020 16:18 UTC