Bangladeshis who were stranded in Canada due to coronavirus lockdown would return on Friday morning, according to the foreign ministry.
Bangladesh High Commissioner to Canada M Mizanur Rahman and Consul General in Toronto Nayem Uddin Ahmed saw those 195 citizens off at the Toronto International Airport on Wednesday night.
The chartered aircraft of Qatar Airways is scheduled to land at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka on Friday morning after taking an hour technical stopover in Doha, the Bangladesh mission said.
The passengers are mostly Bangladeshi students studying in different colleges and universities in Canada, Bangladeshi citizens who went to Canada on tourist and business visas and some expatriate Bangladeshis.
The chartered flight has been arranged upon request of Bangladeshi nationals who have been stuck there amid global lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, the foreign ministry said.
On May 14, Bangladesh like other countries extended the ongoing ban on flight operation for the sixth consecutive times till May 30.
The government so far repatriated stranded Bangladeshis from different other countries including India, the US, the UK, Australia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan and South Korea.
Other countries, including the US, India, Japan, Canada, Australia, Turkey, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, South Korea, Bhutan, Myanmar and different European countries also operated several special chartered flights amid the flight suspension to repatriate their citizens from Dhaka.
