Shawdesh Desk:

The work was under way to set up a thermal scanner at Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram on Tuesday afternoon.

Assistant Health Officer of the airport Md Sharif said, “A thermal scanner has already been brought. Now the installation work is going on.”

Shah Amanat International Airport’s lone thermal scanner, installed in 2015, went out of order seven months ago.

Airport sources said five doctors have been taking temperatures of about 1,500 passengers daily with only five handheld thermometer guns. Passengers say the measures are insufficient to stop the spread of the virus from entering the country.