Mobile court at Dhaka airport fines Air Asia Tk 1 lakh for carrying Covid-19 positive passenger

Mobile Court at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport early today fined Air Asia, a Malaysia based budget airlines, Tk 1 lakh for carrying an identified Covid-19 positive passenger.

“We were astonished when we identified the passenger, having a Covid-19 positive certificate with him,” Ahmed Zamil, an executive magistrate at HSIA, told The Daily Star.

He said the certificate clearly shows in block letters that the passenger was detected with Covid-19. But nobody identified the passenger at any of the check points at Kuala Lumpur Airport before he boarded the aircraft.

Ahmed Zamil also said the airlines with 98 passengers on board landed at HSIA in the early hours of today.

The Bangladeshi expatriate worker was sent to a hospital, he also said . A representative of Air Asia in Dhaka said that they have already drawn the attention of their management to take action against the persons responsible.

Ahmed Zamil said it’s also unexpected on part of the Bangladeshi passenger that he didn’t even bother to go through his test report and boarded the aircraft.

Meanwhile, an executive magistrate at the HSIA on Saturday fined Biman Bangladesh Airlines Tk 30,000 for carrying six passengers without having Covid-19 negative certificate (RT- PCR test).

The flight carrying more than 400 passengers landed at HSIA at 1:30pm from Riyadh. Daily Star