A special flight operated by the Libyan carrier flew 153 passengers to Dhaka on Tuesday and almost 150 of them lacked COVID-19 clearance certificates, according to the airport's Executive Magistrate Ahmed Jamil. "The passengers arrived without COVID-19 certificates were sent into a mandatory institutional quarantine," he told bdnews24.com on Wednesday. The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh on Dec 4 had announced that anyone planning to travel to Bangladesh from Dec 5 onwards must have a COVID-19 negative certificate, obtained within 72 hours of their flight. The airport authoritues have fined at least 15 airlines so far for breach of the medical clearance requirement.

Source: bd News24 December 23, 2020 09:00 UTC