Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said buses were allowed to resume operation within Dhaka and districts due to pressure from various quarters.

The Philippines will ban the entry of travellers from Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh from May 7 to May 14 to prevent the spread of the coronavirus variant first detected in India, the president’s office said on Wednesday.

Greek Minister for Migration and Asylum Notis Mitarachi has expressed interest to make some arrangement for recruiting agricultural workers from Bangladesh on short-term basis.

Saudi Arabia is considering barring overseas pilgrims from the annual haj for the second year running as COVID-19 cases rise globally and worries grow about the emergence of new variants, two sources familiar with the matter said today.

Nationals from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Nepal will be prohibited from entering Malaysia from now adding to the earlier temporary ban on flights to and from India which was announced on April 26.

The government has decided to resume public transport services within districts from tomorrow, on condition of maintaining proper Covid-19 health safety guidelines.

Saudi Arabian authorities have released new pictures that offer a never-before-seen close-up view of the Black Stone in the Kaaba.

A total of 160 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in Libya’s Benghazi due to unstable situation and global coronavirus pandemic, retuned to Dhaka this morning with the help of International Organization of Migration (IOM).

Saudi Arabia will permit citizens immunised against Covid-19 to travel abroad from May 17, the interior ministry said Sunday, more than a year after Saudis were barred from external trips.

US-Bangla Airlines will resume its regular international flight on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route from May 4.

After a 17-day break, international flights to and from Dhaka resumed today following government guidelines and instructions.

Australian residents and citizens who have been in India within 14 days of the date they plan to return home will be banned from entering Australia as of Monday and those who disobey will face fines and jail, government officials said.

Italy has banned passengers from Bangladesh and India amid a worsening coronavirus situation.

Hotel quarantine is mandatory for people arriving in Qatar from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Philippines, Gulf Times reports quoting the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) in Qatar.

More than 300 Bangladeshis are stuck in India’s Petrapole land port today as Bangladesh government yesterday closed the border with India due to a huge surge in Covid-19 cases in the neighbouring country.

Airfares soared and demand for private jets boomed Friday as Indians who could afford it scrambled to escape a Covid surge before flights to the United Arab Emirates shut down.

Bangladeshi citizens stuck in different cities in India due to the ongoing suspension of flights with the neighbouring country will be able to return through land ports.

Fearing that visas of many Bangladeshi migrant workers might expire due to suspension of regular international flights since April 14, the government on Thursday decided to allow respective airlines to operate flights to Kuwait and Bahrain

A total of around 24,600 migrant workers have left the country for their respective workplaces in five countries, including Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and UAE, in the last five days since April 17 via special flights.

The US State Department has added at least 116 countries this week to its “Level Four: Do Not Travel” advisory list, putting the UK, Canada, France, Israel, Mexico, Germany and others on the list, citing a “very high level of Covid-19.”