• Covid, Hope blocks flights from Bangladesh
  • Coronavirus, plane from Qatar to Fiumicino: the landing of Bengali citizens blocked
  • At Fiumicino test 225 from Bangladesh, 14 with seroprevalence

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09 July 2020 
"Five passengers, of the 97 authorized yesterday to land in Fiumicino, of the Qatar Airways flight tested positive". This was announced by the Covid-19 Crisis Unit of the Lazio Region, specifying that "all the passengers disembarked have been subjected to a buffer and are in isolation". 

Meanwhile, this morning there was no passenger with a Bengali passport on board the first of the two scheduled flights of Qatar Airways scheduled to arrive in Rome today and landed at 6.30. The flight, like the one that is expected to land around 13.30 again from the Qatari company, was kept under strict medical supervision after 125 Bengalis arrived on a Qatar flight were rejected yesterday. According to what was learned, as early as yesterday evening, with a specific note, ENAC had invited all carriers not to embark passengers of Bangladeshi origin on direct flights to Italy.



"There will be no problems: we are working with the Italian authorities to track down the Bengalis who have landed in Italy since the beginning of June" said the ambassador of Bangladesh to Rome Abdus Sohban Sikder in an interview with the Messenger, according to which the situation of his positive fellow citizens the coronavirus is under control. To the members of the Bengali community in Rome "we have always asked to follow" the indications of the Italian government. "Those who do not follow the rules, first will end up infected and then pay the consequences", adds the diplomat, without commenting the news of the false certificates of negativity sold in Bangladesh to allow people to travel by plane even in a feverish state. "We have given precise instructions to our fellow citizens - continues the ambassador - so that they can undergo tests. We know there are infected people and others who may be infected, but they are already in hospitals or hotels where they are quarantined. I believe that the flights will not remain closed for long - he continues - at the moment they are only suspended for a week. I believe that as of July 17, flights could be leaving regularly ".