The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating threats to press freedom around the world, with authoritarian states including China and Iran suppressing details of the outbreak, activists said on Tuesday.

The UN Refugee Agency warned of life-threatening consequences if annual monsoon preparations cannot be completed on time in Bangladesh amid the global outbreak of Covid-19.

Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is to undergo Covid-19 testing after it was confirmed that he met a man, who was later found to have contracted the virus.

The World Health Organization (WHO) says that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory.

Two men with breathing problems die in an isolation unit at Mohammad Ali Hospital in Bogura.

The local administration in Satkhira sends 170 brick field workers, who had arrived from Narsingdi, on institutional quarantine as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

UNDP and United Enterprises & Co. Ltd (UECL) have jointly taken an initiative to provide food support to 5,000 destitute women in Jamalpur, Kurigram and Gaibandha in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

Karwan Bazar, one of the biggest kitchen markets in Dhaka city, has been closed for retail sales as a measure to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The UN Refugee Agency warns of life-threatening consequences for Rohingya refugees and host communities if annual monsoon preparations cannot be completed on time amid the global outbreak of Covid-19.

Another 164 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, return home by a special flight.

Habiganj's Lakhai Upazila Health Complex was declared closed after a doctor and two nurses of the hospital tested positive with coronavirus.

A total of 264 UK and 154 Turkey citizens left Dhaka on special flights this afternoon. They had opted to return home amid the Covid-19 outbreak, for which their governments arranged their return flights home.

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) today filed a case against a Union Parishad chairman of Perli in Narail for misappropriating 2,550 kg of rice meant for relief.

Two people die in Khulna and Patuakhali with coronavirus-like symptoms.

More than 100 families residing at the President's Estate of India, which houses the Rashtrapati Bhavan, went on self-isolation after a sanitation worker's relative tested positive for coronavirus, officials say.

Nine people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A total of 32 policemen under Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) and Gazipur district have tested positive for coronavirus.

An unidentified elderly sick man aged around 65 was left at a char on the Jamuna river in Pabna’s Bera upazila for two days. He was unfed and untreated until a team led by an upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) along with medical staff rescued him yesterday evening.

The number of doctors infected with Covid-19 so far crosses 200, according to a tally of the Bangladesh Doctors Foundation.

A South Texas emergency room physician chooses a novel place to self-isolate as he’s treating patients with the novel coronavirus.