Over 70,000 Migrant Workers Return Home Since April

A total of 70,427 workers returned home from various countries in the last four and a half months, according to data from the Expatriates' Welfare Desk at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA).

“A total of 70,427 workers returned home from 23 countries between April 1 and August 18, 2020. Of them 67,119 are male and 3,308 are female,” Assistant Director of Expatriates’ Welfare Desk at HSIA Md Fakhrul Alam told BSS on Sunday.

Workers returned from overseas for a number of factors, such as work losses owing to Covid-19, the expiry of visa terms, or Akamas, though several of them are jail returns, he said.

According to the data, the highest number of workers returned from the United Arab Emirates ( UAE).

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A total of 23,502 workers returned from UAE, 12,950 from Saudi Arabia, 7,759 from Maldives, 7,329 from Kuwait, 3,645 from Oman, 1,382 from Singapore, 746 from Bahrain, 71 from South Africa, 6,068 from Qatar, 1,838 from Malaysia, 100 from South Korea, 20 from Thailand, 39 from Myanmar, 481 from Jordan, 1,419 from Iraq, 122 from Vietnam, 80 from Sri Lanka, 151 from Italy, 444 from Lebanon, 100 from Russia, 20 from Mauritius and 40 from Cambodia, revealed the data.

Nevertheless, several of the returnees would enter their workplaces in the respective countries after the condition becomes routine, said the officials concerned.