International Desk:
Dhaka, Sept-05,
Turkey resumed its
passenger flights with Bangladesh on Saturday, after nearly nine weeks of
suspension.
According to the
Turkish Embassy in Dhaka, passengers will now be able to board the flights of
Turkish Airlines and that of others to travel from Bangladesh to Turkey.
The passengers
travelling from Bangladesh will have to submit their negative PCR test results
taken 72 hours before their arrival to Turkey.
If people – travelling
from Bangladesh or those who have been in the country for the last 14 days –
can prove that they were vaccinated with a minimum of two doses of vaccines
which have been granted emergency use authorisation by either the World Health
Organisation (WHO) or Turkey (two doses of Sinovac, BioNTech, AstraZeneca,
Moderna, Sinopharm; one dose of Johnson & Johnson) and 14 days have passed
since the application of the last dose, will be exempted from quarantine during
their entry into Turkey.
Those who cannot prove
that they were vaccinated with minimum of two doses of vaccines (one dose for
Johnson & Johnson) – which have been granted emergency use authorisation by
either the WHO or Turkey – and 14 days have passed since the application of the
last dose, will need to quarantine at their residences or addresses after
entering Turkey.
They will get PCR
tested on the 10th day; if the test results are negative, the home quarantine
will be lifted. Those who do not get PCR tested on the 10th day will stay in
home quarantine for 14 days.
The people whose test
results come out positive will follow instructions published by the General
Directorate of Public Health under the Ministry of Health of Turkey.
Passengers under 12
years of age will be exempted from submitting PCR test results and vaccination
certificates.
Flight-ship crew,
seafarers – identified as essential workers and truck drivers – will be
exempted from submitting PCR test results and vaccination certificates.
On June 28, Turkey
halted flights and direct travel from Bangladesh, Brazil, South Africa, India,
Nepal and Sri Lanka due to new variants of the Covid-19.
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