Bangladesh issues travel warnings as Covid-19 infections rise in neighbouring countries

A security personnel stands guard at the entrance of an isolation ward prepared for patients with Covid-19 symptoms at a government hospital in Secunderabad, Telangana on May 24, 2025. A Bangladesh directive stated that new subvariants of the coronavirus are spreading in several neighbouring countries. - AFP

DHAKA: Amid a fresh rise in Covid-19 infections in several neighbouring countries, the Bangladeshi interim government has asked people to refrain from traveling to those destinations unless absolutely necessary.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) under the Ministry of Health has also instructed the relevant authorities to enhance health screening and surveillance measures at all ports to contain the spread of the infection.