All Bangladeshi evacuees from Wuhan go home after coronavirus quarantine
Dhaka/Xinhua/UNI: All 312 Bangladeshi evacuees from the central Chinese city of Wuhan, the epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak, have been released from a 14-day quarantine in the capital of Dhaka.
Meerjady Sabrina Flora, head of the country's Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research, made the announcement on Sunday.
"All the evacuees have tested negative for the virus," Flora said.
Flora said all of the returnees were sent home by Sunday morning after they underwent the last health check-up in Dhaka on Saturday.
"They were released with no signs of the coronavirus," she said.
The Bangladeshis were brought back from Wuhan onboard a special flight on Feb.
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