375 Expatriate Bangladeshis Die Of Corona in Saudi Arabia

A total of 375 Bangladeshi expatriates, including four physicians, have died of coronavirus in Saudi Arabia since the onset of the pandemic, said Bangladeshi Ambassador to Riyadh Golam Moshi today.

Disclosing the Bangladeshi death toll in Saudi Arabia, the Ambassador expressed his deep condolence for the demise of all Bangladeshi nationals, including expatriates with the virus, while attending an online meeting with officials of the Bangladeshi embassy in Riyad, the Consulate in Jeddah and the Hajj Mission, according to a message received here.

The Ambassador said that Bangladesh's missions in Saudi Arabia have so far provided food aid to 30,000 Bangladeshi expatriates in the oil-rich nation that hosts around 21 lakh, Bangladeshi migrants.

Besides, he said 60 doctors have been providing telemedicine support to Bangladeshi expatriates residing across Saudi Arabia while the Bangladesh missions there are facilitating expats in admitting into the hospitals.

The Bangladesh missions in Saudi Arabia also remain open for providing passport services to the expatriates as well as facilitating chartered aircraft to repatriate Bangladeshi nationals who have opted to go back home in this crisis period.

The Bangladesh envoy thanked the Saudi Arabian King for providing free of cost treatment to Bangladeshi patients with the coronavirus.

In Bangladesh, the coronavirus (COVID-19) cases reached to 100,000 today as 3803 more people tested positive overnight while 38 more fatalities were reported during the period, raising the death toll from the pandemic to 1343.