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B'desh makes negative COVID-19 report mandatory to travel abroad
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IANS | 13 Jul, 2020
The Bangladesh government has
made it mandatory for everyone to take a certificate from authorised
testing centres as evidence that they do not have coronavirus before
travelling abroad, the Foreign Ministry said.
An online
inter-ministerial meeting took the decision on Sunday amid
investigations into scandals over fake COVID-19 test reports, reports
bdnews24.
A proposal was placed in the meeting for online submission of the test reports to the immigration authorities.
The
meeting also decided to set up a testing centre under the expatriates'
welfare and overseas employment ministry for only Bangladeshis who are
travelling abroad to work.
Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen,
Health Minister Zahid Malik, Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas
Employment Minister Imran Ahmad, and State Minister for Foreign Affairs
Shahriar Alam joined the meeting.
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin
Momen, Civil Aviation and Tourism Secretary Mohibul Haque and
Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Ahmed Munirus Saleheen were
also present.
The development comes in the wake of the arrest of
Sabrina A Chaudhury, a government doctor and chairman of JKG Health
Care, over her alleged involvement in a COVID-19 testing scam, bdnews24
reported.
Police brought charges against JKG Health Care for
providing false reports without testing the swabs collected from the
people for COVID-19 tests.
A large number of fabricated COVID-19
test reports, written on the official pads of the health directorate and
the IEDCR, were found on the laptops of JKG Health Care," said Md
Mahmud Khan, an assistant commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police.
On June 24, the Directorate General of Health Services stripped JKG of the permission for collecting samples for COVID-19 tests.
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