Coronavirus impacts overseas job seekers

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As the spread of coronavirus around the world continues, its influence on overseas migration from Bangladesh is felt for the first time with Kuwait slapping a temporary travel ban on Bangladeshis and other six nationalities.

About 7,000 Bangladeshi employees who were about to complete the migration method and who returned home on keep are met with uncertainty following a ban on the entry into Kuwait, said recruiting agencies.

They told New Age that any upcoming embargo on hiring personnel from Bangladesh put the overseas job sector at high risk as the condition spreads with human contact.

Recruiting Organizations Okya  Parisad president M Tipu Sultan told MODERN that several thousands of Bangladeshi personnel with valid visas wouldn't normally be able to go into Kuwait and China.

He said that there have been about 2,000 Bangladeshi personnel who were not able to fly to China, the epicentre of the novel coronavirus with their valid visas as a result of coronavirus pandemic.

In a circular on Friday, Kuwait federal government said that arrivals in the status of Kuwait of the citizens from Bangladesh, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka , Syria, Lebanon and Egypt, who have valid residency or previous entry visa , along with those from different airports, in the past fourteen days were prohibited. 

Bangladeshi employee Md Rashed, who found go to Bangladesh on a 20-day keep was in concern with not being able to go back to Kuwait because of restriction on port access.

‘I am worried about my go back to Kuwait as my air travel on Qatari airline is scheduled for March 10,’ he said.

Dhaka-structured government officials and recruiting brokers said that on the most detrimental case scenario, if the Middle East got infected, a few of the main destinations of Bangladeshi staff would close down.

Workers and rights activists said that Bangladeshi workers in a few coronavirus-affected countries had reportedly been gripped by panic and were desperately trying to come back home.

Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training director standard Shamsul Alam told MODERN on Saturday that employees were going overseas with job visas seeing that usual as there is no effect of coronavirus on them.

‘But I cannot predict exactly what will happen in the coming days if the coronavirus affect the destination countries,’ he said.

About Kuwait, he said that the Kuwait authorities tightened the motion of foreign employees but was yet to avoid recruitment from Bangladesh.

Kuwait, on Tuesday, built medical certificates for the nationals from 10 countries, including Bangladeshis, mandatory. But the talk about withdrew the restriction on Thursday pursuing requests by the countries worried.

Bangladesh Association of International Recruiting Firms secretary standard Shameem Ahmed Chowdhury Noman said that Kuwait federal government decided to allow entry of migrant personnel but the workers will be quarantined just after reaching Kuwait.

Depending on the intensity of the pass on of coronavirus, overseas careers of workers will dsicover a decline, he told New Age.

Up to now, Bangladeshi citizens have already been infected with the virus in Singapore, the UAE and Italy. Consequently, a substantial number of Bangladeshis, employed in countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, the UAE, Bahrain, Italy and Japan, happen to be also struggling amid the ongoing outbreak.

The virus was already detected in different Middle Eastern countries including Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.

Saudi Arabia restricted travelling and Umrah visa in order to avoid movements of international nationals there.

Ovibashi Karmi Unnayan Program chairman Shakirul Islam told MODERN that Bangladeshi personnel in Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Bahrain were worried over coronavirus infection.

He suggested that Bangladesh missions and embassies overseas should keep the migrant workers updated about coronavirus through providing on line briefing to them with necessary advices.

The World Health Corporation called the spread of the Coronavirus ‘deeply concerning’ as a wave of countries reported their first cases of the disease which includes now killed nearly 3,500 persons and infected a lot more than 100,000 across 92 nations.

Bangladeshi national located in Venice of Italy Sharmin Alamgir told MODERN that these were following federal government instructions on coronavirus and maintaining precautionary measures while moving away from the residences.

The death toll from the brand new coronavirus in Italy has increased to 197 after the major daily increase in fatalities there because the outbreak began.

Quoting officials, the BBC reported that 49 people had died in 24 hours, while a lot more than 4,600 instances have been reported in total.

Source: https://www.newagebd.net

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