The government said the number of Bangladeshis who wanted to return but could not be brought back is 171. Momen also said on Saturday that it would have been possible to evacuate the Bangladeshis from China if the government could manage a chartered Chinese plane. So, we’ve told them [stranded Bangladeshis] to wait,” the minister said. Some of the Bangladesh nationals studying at the Three Gorges University in Yichang, some 285 kilometres from Wuhan, told bdnews24.com that a total of 172 Bangladeshi students have been stranded there. The Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing was maintaining regular communication with the stranded Bangladeshis and a team of 384-member group was continuously was enquiring about them, according to the minister.

Source: bd News24 February 08, 2020 13:41 UTC