Bangladesh fines Buraq Air for bringing passengers without COVID clearances
Wednesday, 23 December 2020
The authorities at Dhaka's Shahjalal International Airport have slapped a Tk 300,000 fine on Buraq Air after its passengers arrived in Bangladesh from Libya without negative COVID-19 test reports.
A special flight operated by the Libyan carrier flew 153 passengers to Dhaka on Tuesday and almost 150 of them lacked COVID-19 clearance certificates, according to the airport's Executive Magistrate Ahmed Jamil, reports bdnews24.com.
"The passengers arrived without COVID-19 certificates were sent into a mandatory institutional quarantine," he told bdnews24.com on Wednesday.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh on Dec 4 had announced that anyone planning to travel to Bangladesh from Dec 5 onwards must have a COVID-19 negative certificate, obtained within 72 hours of their flight.
The airport authorities have fined at least 15 airlines so far for breach of the medical clearance requirement.