IEDCR had earlier warned that Bangladesh was at high risk of having coronavirus spread rapidly, due to the country's population density, and had announced emergency preventive measures against the spread of the virus. As a part of efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak, the Government of Bangladesh had previously installed thermal screeners at all ports of entry and suspended land and air travels with the worst hit countries.[1] Reports from different districts show that about one hundred returnees from other countries were being kept in home quarantine.