Turkish Airlines fined Tk 3 lakh for bringing passengers without Covid-19 negative certificates
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A mobile court at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport fined Turkish Airlines Tk three lakh for delivering three passengers who didn't have Covid-19 negative certificate.
The three passengers came back to Bangladesh from USA with stopover in Turkey on Wednesday, Ahmed Jamil, a magistrate of the mobile court at HSIA, told The Daily Star today.
The three USA-returnee Bangladeshis -- members of the same family -- are well-educated and one of them even works in medical department in the US, Jamil also said.
The three passengers were delivered to institutional quarantine.
"It's thus unfortunate that those that didn't take Covid-19 negative certificates are incredibly conscious and well-educated persons.
They are not unacquainted with what's happening in US regarding spread of Covid-19 pandemic.," explained the magistrate.
Before leaving the United States, the three passengers went to a doctor who gave them certificate that they don't' have any symptoms of Covid-19.
But do not require underwent the test mandatory to come quickly to Bangladesh. Turkish Airlines realized that if they get any passenger from Istanbul to Dhaka with no a test report, they might need to pay fine following the flight reaches Dhaka.
They actually offloaded ten passengers who wished to head to Dhaka from Istanbul on Wednesday because they didn't have the Covid-19 negative certificate.
But the three passengers from the United States could actually reach Dhaka, due to mistake of persons responsible to handle check-in duty.
Source: https://www.thedailystar.net
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