Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals, quarantined in the suburbs of Indian capital for 14 days, will return home today afternoon after they tested negative for the Coronavirus. They will leave New Delhi for Dhaka by a flight of Indigo Airlines at around 12:15pm with financial support from the government of Bangladesh. Bangladesh High Commissioner to India Muhammad Imran is scheduled to see them off at Indira Gandhi International Airport, an official told UNB yesterday.

During their stay in the camp, the Bangladesh mission was in constant touch with the camp authorities to know about their health condition and welfare.  The mission took care of their Delhi-Dhaka air travel expenses.  The Bangladesh nationals, mostly students and a family with a kid, went through necessary health check-up on Thursday and no-one was found infected with coronavirus.

“We’ll get health clearance certificates on Friday and will fly for Dhaka on Saturday afternoon,” one of the students from the 23-member group told UNB over phone.  They were evacuated from China’s Wuhan, the epicenter of the coronavirus, on February 27 by a special Indian Air Force flight with a number of other Indian nationals, said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.

Bangladesh brought back 312 of its nationals from China on February 1 and the remaining Bangladeshis got registered to return home.