The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh in a fresh instruction has put a restriction on flights from all European countries, except the United Kingdom, and a dozen of Latin American, African and Middle Eastern countries for two weeks from April 3 amid upsurge in COVID-19 cases.
Flight Standard and Regulations Division of the CAAB issued the restriction reviewing the ongoing COVID-19 situation in home and abroad.
CAAB spokesman assistant director Sohel Muhammad Kamruzzaman said that the circular was issued on Wednesday and it was sent to all stakeholders for implementation from April 3.
Passengers from all European countries, except UK, and 12 other countries — Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Chile, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Peru, Qatar, South Africa, Turkey and Uruguay — will not be allowed to enter Bangladesh from midnight past April 3 till April 18.
The instruction said that airlines operating scheduled passenger flights from all those countries would be allowed to carry only transit passengers to Bangladesh on conditions that the passengers would remain confined inside the terminal building only during their transit.
‘Irrespective of the COVID-19 vaccination, all passengers coming to Bangladesh will have to show PCR based COVID-19 negative certificate during departure and on arrival at the airport. The PCR test has to be done within 72 hours of the flight departure time,’ said the instruction.
‘If no COVID-19 symptoms are found on-arrival health checks, passengers will strictly have to complete a 14-day home quarantine.’
‘If any COVID-19 symptom is detected, they will have to complete a mandatory fourteen-day isolation at government facilities at their own expenses,’ it further stated.
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