One hundred and sixty-five passengers including 5 infants have been cleared from Sylhet Osmani International Airport this afternoon after the authorities concerned verified their Covid-19 negative certificates.
The passengers, who landed at the airport this morning, were cleared after verifying their Covid-19 certificates and screening at the airport, our Sylhet correspondent reports quoting Sylhet Sadar Upazila Health Officer Dr Ahmed Sirajum Munir.
No one was sent to mandatory institutional quarantine but they were advised to maintain home quarantine for 14 days, the doctor added.
A flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines carrying 202 passengers from the United Kingdom reached Sylhet Osmani International Airport this morning.
BG 202 from London's Heathrow Airport reached Sylhet airport at 9:05am, the airport's Manager Hafiz Ahmed said, adding that the flight with the rest of the passengers departed for Dhaka's Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport at 10:18am.
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