As many as 169 students stranded in various medical colleges in Bangladesh arrived in the valley on Wednesday afternoon. Later they were shifted to their respective districts for 14-day administrative quarantine.
Earlier, a group of 169 students from Dhaka, Bangladesh had arrived on Tuesday while as the first batch of 168 students had landed in the Valley on last Friday. The flights were arranged by the Government of India (GoI) amid the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown.
“All the students who arrived from Dhaka, Bangladesh, were received under due observance of necessary protocol. The students were properly screened and their samples were collected for COVID-19 testing after their arrival in Valley,” an official said.
