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​​​​​​​Dubai-based Emirates Airlines has suspended passenger flights from Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka until July 15, the airline said in a notice.

The border closure with India has been extended for 14 more days till July 14 amid the worsening Covid-19 situation in Bangladesh, said Mashfee Binte Shams, secretary (East) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs today.

Authorities of Bangladesh Railway have cancelled all rail operations from Rajshahi to other parts of the country for the next seven days in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus infection.

From now on, more than 300 local travel agencies approved by Saudia, also known as Saudi Arabian Airlines, will be able to book hotels in the Kingdom using the airlines’ financial and software channels.

To curb Covid-19 transmission, Oman has extended the entry ban from 12 countries -- including Bangladesh, India and Pakistan -- until further notice, effective from 2pm (local time) on June 5.

Air France (AIRF.PA) cancelled two more flights to Moscow on Monday after Russian authorities failed to approve flight plans that avoid Belarus airspace.

Amid pressure by expatriates’ welfare ministry, Biman Bangladesh Airlines today agreed to look into reducing the exorbitant airfare to different Middle East destination resulting in huge financial burden on the country’s expatriate workers.

Saudi Arabia is lifting a ban on travelers arriving from 11 countries that it imposed to curb the spread of coronavirus, the Saudi state news agency said on Saturday, but will still require quarantine procedures.

The validity of iqamas (residency permits), exit and re-entry visas, as well as visit visas of expatriates who are currently stuck in countries facing travel ban, will be extended until June 2, 2021 free of cost, the Saudi Press Agency reported citing a royal order.

Tarik A Alowaidi, country manager of Saudi Airlines in Bangladesh, today asked all Saudi-bound Bangladeshi expatriate workers to book their hotels for quarantine stays through the airline’s holiday website.

Malaysians and other travellers from Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Pakistan who have been given permission to enter Malaysia will now have to undergo an extended mandatory quarantine period of 21 days.

Launches have started operating from Barishal and are charging double the usual fares and are failing to follow any hygiene rules.

Thai border controls will tighten after the discovery of three local cases of the South African COVID-19 variant stemming from illegal border crossings, authorities said on Sunday, as the country grapples to contain its worst coronavirus outbreak yet.

Japan has decided to impose entry ban on travellers who have been in Bangladesh, Maldives and Sri Lanka in the last 14 days before arrival to the East Asian country to prevent the spread of a more contagious coronavirus variant first found in India.

Over 100 Dhaka-bound passenger buses from different districts of the northern region were sent back from the western side of Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj today as they were travelling in violation of the ban on inter-district public transport.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines flights to Madinah, Kuwait and Bangkok have been cancelled till May 31 and flights to Manchester till June 30.

Hundreds of city dwellers are leaving the capital today for their homes even on the second day of Eid-ul-Fitr.

Kuwait has banned direct commercial flight operations with Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka until further notice amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines will operate two additional flights from Dhaka to Dubai on May 12 before United Arab Emirates’ suspension of entry of travellers from Bangladesh comes into effect from May 13.