The Zimbabwean Test squad will face Ebola screening at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport when they arrive in Dhaka today to participate in the forthcoming series against Bangladesh, said the Bangladesh Cricket Board officials. A 24-member squad, which included 17 players, will arrive in Dhaka through an Emirates flight to lock horns with the Tigers for the three-match Test series and five one-day internationals.
‘There will be an Ebola screening of Zimbabwean players and officials at the airport,’ BCB’s chief executive officer Nizamuddin Chowdhury confirmed New Age on Thursday.
‘It is just a routine check-up at the Airport for the people coming from that part of the world,’ ‘We have already conveyed the message to Zimbabwean Cricket [board] so that they don’t feel embarrassed,’ he said.
Bangladesh stepped up measures in country’s ports after the Ebola outbreak in West African countries reached to an epidemic scale.
A US team on Wednesday visited the Dhaka airport to inspect Bangladesh’s preparations to prevent the deadly Ebola virus from entering the country. A total of 4,493 people have died from the world’s worst Ebola outbreak on record, and the situation in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone is deteriorating, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
-With New Age input
