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COVID-19: Bangladesh te week-long air travel ban

DHAKA:Bangladesh  para plans khan laga  khobor  dishe  sob  international aro domestic flights  khan ek haafta nimete Wednesday  para shuru kurikena bondh kuribo etu bi aro ekta lockdown hobole ase etu nutun coronavirus  cases utha samay te.

Sob international passenger flights  khan Bangladesh para  aha aro jaa toh bondh thakibo april 14 para 20 tak.etu  khobor toh DPA news agency para Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) para kuwa te statement te koikena janaidiya thakishe.

Komti hoilebi  500 flights  khan cancel kurishe etu ban nimete.etu  khobor toh  CAAB’s Air Vice Marshal M Mafidur Rahman para koikena  janaidiya thakishe.

Bangladeshi airports khan toh etia komti hoilebi  70 to 75 flights per day te kaam kuri ase.tai para koikena janaidiya thakishe.

Domestic passenger flights and chartered helicopter flights tig  suspend kura te thakishe aro kunba exceptions khan toh medical evacuations, humanitarian relief and cargo flights nimete bonai thakishe. aviation authority para khobor te janaidiya thakishe.\

Covid-19 cases March te utha para government  khan ke nine-day nationwide shutdown Tuesday din tak olaishe etu pichede aro ekta seven-day lockdown Wednesday para olaishe  etu virus pheli thaka toh rukhabole nimetre.

Etu authorities klhan  para passengers khan Europe aro dusra 12 desh para april 13 tak bondh kurishe.

Passenger flight operations on domestic routes toh april 5 tak bondh kurishe. Bangladesh, kuntu te novel coronavirus laga first case  March moina te olaishe tai khan  highest single-day increase infections April 9, 7,462 cases para uthise.

Etia tak desh te 684,756 cases and 9,739 deaths khan thakishe. Bangladesh toh poila te nationwide shutdown komti hoilebi dui moina uporte uthise March 26, 2020, para May moina tak thakishe.