Some 33 Bangladeshis, who returned from India last night through Benapole border in Jashore, have been sent to institutional quarantine as they didn't have COVID-19 negative certificates with them.

All the 33 returnees are cancer and heart patients, said Mohsin Uddin, officer-in-charge of Benapole Port Immigration Police.

The OC said a total of 342 Bangladeshis returned to the country through Benapole last night and of them, 33 were sent to quarantine at Jashore General Hospital this morning for not having COVID-19 negative certificates with them.