Over 300 Bangladeshis return home from virus-hit Wuhan on special aircraft

[BitHeroBD]

Dhaka: Over 300 Bangladeshis on Saturday returned home from Chinese city Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, on a special aircraft and were quarantined in a facility under military and police vigil, officials said.

State-run Biman Airlines' Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft carrying 312 Bangladeshis, including 12 children and three infants, landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA) here in afternoon, Biman spokeswomen Tahera Khondoker said..

Khondoker said 15 crew and four doctors were on board the special flight.

The evacuees were directly escorted to nearby Ashkona Hajj Camp from the airport, where they would have to stay under medical observation for next 14 days as the time is considered as the incubation period of the virus, a Bangladeshi health ministry spokesman said.

According to a report in BD News, seven people suffering from fever were sent to hospital after they arrived from Wuhan.

The death toll in the coronavirus epidemic has soared to 259 with total confirmed cases surging to 11,791 in China amid stepped up efforts by a number of countries to evacuate their nationals from Hubei province and its capital Wuhan.

The virus emerged in early December and has been traced to a market in Wuhan that sold wild animals.

The World Health Organisation declared the outbreak a global emergency on Thursday.

Bangladesh Foreign Minister A K Abdul Momen during a media briefing with Health Minister Zahid Maleque on Friday said the returnees were not sick, “but we don't want to take any risk and they must go through the required medical observations".

Malek urged the returnees’ relatives not to gather at the camp in the next 14 days, adding that the Directorate General of Health and Army Medical Core were mobilised to take proper care of the evacuees in line with a treatment protocol prepared with WHO guidelines to manage the situation.

Officials earlier said army troops were called out to guard the camp alongside policemen to enforce the quarantine so the people returned from China could not come in touch with other people.

The evacuees were among estimated 400 Bangladeshis, mostly students, who were stranded in Wuhan.

The governments of the several countries, including India, have chalked up plans to return their nationals under special arrangement from Wuhan.

Air India's jumbo B747 aircraft carrying 211 students, 110 working professionals and three minors, reached New Delhi on Saturday after evacuating 324 Indians from Wuhan.

Another flight of the airline departed for the Chinese city from New Delhi in Afternoon.

This story has been published from a wire agency feed without modifications to the text. Only the headline has been changed.

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[Michael Corleone]

Great way to **** your country since dormant period is 14 days

 

[UKBengali]

Great way to **** your country since dormant period is 14 days

Is it safe the precautions BD is taking?

 

[Destranator]

Great way to **** your country since dormant period is 14 days

Someone who is examined healthy for 14 days straight is unlikely have the virus.
14 days is a very long incubation period.

 

[Michael Corleone]

Someone who is examined healthy for 14 days straight is unlikely have the virus.
14 days is a very long incubation period.

I hope that was thoroughly checked before bringing them in

 

[Destranator]

I hope that was thoroughly checked before bringing them in

What, the incubation period? They are currently in 14-day incubation in Bangladesh.

 

[Chhatrapati]

Good, don't leave your people at the mercy of Chinese hospitals. Even they can't fully handle the influx that they're building makeshift hospitals. Wonder how many doctors will be there or medical supplies.

 

[Michael Corleone]

What, the incubation period? They are currently in 14-day incubation in Bangladesh.

Aha well then that’s good. Incubation is 14 days after which symptoms occurs

Is it safe the precautions BD is taking?

As long as they were taken in quarantine as soon as they exited the plane and as long as the plane and quarantine is throughly sanitized after

 

[Bilal9]

What, the incubation period? They are currently in 14-day incubation in Bangladesh.

The Quarantine is 30 days not 14 as far as I know. The quarantine center is in Uttara (Ashkona Area). Stay away from near Ashkona for a few months.

 

[Bengal71]

The Quarantine is 30 days not 14 as far as I know. The quarantine center is in Uttara (Ashkona Area). Stay away from near Ashkona for a few months.

No need. The virus can't spread through air. It can only spread though fluid droplets. Like someone sneezes near you and small fluid droplets from the sneeze is inhaled by you. That within a very short time, it the fluid stays in air for too long and inhaled by you, then risk is negligible or none.

Scroll to the FAQ section:

https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/alerts/Pages/coronavirus-faqs.aspx#1-3

 

[SBUS-CXK]

Good, don't leave your people at the mercy of Chinese hospitals. Even they can't fully handle the influx that they're building makeshift hospitals. Wonder how many doctors will be there or medical supplies.

I'm surprised. South Asian countries are questioning China's medical standards. Do you know what a hospital is?

 

[Chhatrapati]

I'm surprised. South Asian countries are questioning China's medical standards. Do you know what a hospital is?

You Chinese had to smuggle Indian generic meds for your poor and desperate cancer patients. So, yeah I know what a hospital is and how expensive it can be in China.

 

[proud.pakistani]

Inna lillahe wainna illahe rajiun
Indeed, to God we belong and to God we shall return

 

[KhanBaba2]

I'm surprised. South Asian countries are questioning China's medical standards. Do you know what a hospital is?

Number of doctors, nurses, hospital beds are based on normal requirements. In case of epidemic of this size, they tend to get overwhelmed.

A country can create hospitals by converting places like schools and sourcing equipment, but sourcing doctors and nurses takes time.

 

[SBUS-CXK]

You Chinese had to smuggle Indian generic meds for your poor and desperate cancer patients. So, yeah I know what a hospital is and how expensive it can be in China.

Ah, but, you know, Indian medical level and low-level medical equipment...
good luck.