Bangladesh resumes international flights amid spurt in coronavirus cases

at 5:49 pm
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New Delhi (NVI): Flight operations on international routes from Bangladesh resumed today after over two months of suspension due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A Qatar Airways flight left Dhaka at 2am and another flight from Doha landed in Dhaka at 3am, according to media reports.

Meanwhile, Bangladesh saw the highest-ever jump in coronavirus cases and deaths in a single day as the health authorities confirmed the detection of 3,862 new patients and record 53 deaths in the span of 24 hours.

With this the death toll rose to 1,262 and the number of confirmed cases reached 94,481, according to United News of Bangladesh.

So far, a total of 36,264 people have recovered from the deadly contagion, after 2,237 more patients made recovery.

In addition to this, the government has extended the closure of all the educational institutions of the country until August 6 considering the worsening coronavirus situation.