Two Bangladeshi nationals, who returned home from India through the Benapole border in Jashore, have tested positive for Covid-19, officials said on Tuesday.
Dr Ashrafuzzaman of the Benapole Immigration Health Centre, said that three people returned to Bangladesh from India through the land border on Wednesday noon.
Of them, two — Habibur Rahman, 60, and Habibullah Sohan, 30, of Sadar upazila in Thakurgaon district — tested Covid positive, he said.
The Covid-19 positive patients were sent to Jashore 250-bed General Hospital while another returnee, Kamal, was taken to the Jashore isolation centre for a mandatory 14-day quarantine.
Raju Ahmed, officer-in-charge of the Benapole checkpost, said the two Bangladeshi nationals had gone to India for medical purposes. “Already the higher authorities concerned have been informed.”
The world is struggling to fight off the Omicron variant of Covid-19 and the number of corona cases is increasing fast globally.
Three more cases of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 have been detected in Bangladesh, taking its total tally to 10, according to GISAID, the global database for genomic data on the Coronavirus.
On December 11, Bangladesh reported its first two cases of the Omicron variant in two members of the Bangladesh women cricket team.
India Wednesday reported its first known Omicron death in the northwestern city of Udaipur, as the country recorded a whopping 58,097 fresh Covid cases and 534 fatalities in 24 hours.
Alarmed by the rising Omicron cases, India’s federal government two weeks ago warned states that “the variant is three times more transmissible than the Delta” and directed them to take action to rein in its spread.
Source: United News of Bangladesh