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Twenty-three Bangladeshi more nationals have been evacuated from China’s Wuhan, the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak.
They were flown to Delhi on Thursday by a special flight with a number of other Indian nationals, said the Indian High Commission in Dhaka.
The Bangladeshi nationals will be quarantined in special facilities in suburbs in Delhi, according to a news agency report.
More than 80,000 people in about 40 countries have been infected with the new coronavirus which emerged in December. More than 2,700 have died so far. The vast majority remain in China.
Bangladesh had brought back 312 of its nationals from China on February 1 and the remaining Bangladeshis registered to return home.
Earlier, India expressed willingness to take some Bangladeshi students onboard from Wuhan with Indian nationals upon necessary permission.
Initially, a small group of nine Bangladeshi students along with their Indian friend made a request to the Embassy of India in Beijing seeking their helping hand, a student told news agency UNB.
However, as required by the Chinese authorities, their request needed to be forwarded to Indian Embassy as a diplomatic note by Bangladesh Embassy in Beijing, said the student who wished to remain anonymous.
The diplomatic note from Bangladesh Embassy conveyed their concurrence or no objection to Bangladesh students’ evacuation on board the Indian flight, the student said.
Bangladesh Embassy also sent a separate diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China conveying the same.