Local authorities have locked down five houses in Chowgachha upazila of Jashore after a teenager of the area was admitted to hospital with symptoms similar to that of coronavirus infection.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a video conference with govt officials of all 64 districts on Tuesday to coordinate the ongoing activities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has been given the permission to begin testing patients for COVID-19, alongside the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), icddr,b officials confirmed today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to provide food aid to people, who have lost their means of daily income, due to the ongoing 10-day shutdown.

Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, US President Donald Trump has extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public-health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding coronavirus pandemic.

Another person has tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 49, says IEDCR.

Local authorities of Hathazari upazila in Chattogram are sending appreciation letters to recently-returned expatriates in the area, who have completed their quarantine period as per government directives.

Joe Diffie, a Grammy award-winning country music singer who had several chart-topping hits in the 1990s, has died of coronavirus. He was 61.

Mainland China reports 31 new coronavirus cases, including one locally transmitted infection, the country’s National Health Commission said, dropping from 45 cases a day earlier.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he would remain in self-imposed isolation even though his wife, who had contracted the coronavirus, has recovered.

Bangladeshi expatriates in Qatar, whose identity cards have already expired or have been living there illegally due to other reasons during the coronavirus pandemic, can take free treatment at hospitals in the Gulf country.

Bangladeshi expatriate teachers and students in at least eight countries express concern over the rapid spread of coronavirus and call upon all people in the country to come together in fighting the pandemic.

Tokyo Olympics organisers are eyeing next July as a start date for the postponed Games, Japanese media reported Sunday, following the historic decision to delay the event due to the coronavirus.

Mainul Islam was waiting by his rickshaw near an almost deserted Nakhalpara Rail Gate in the capital for over 20 minutes.

The countrywide shutdown was a timely step by the administration. It was a necessary inconvenience to stem the spread of COVID-19 and ward off the likelihood of the kind of situation that was and is being faced in many countries.

Bashundhara Group has given the government the International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) in the city’s Kuril area to be converted into a hospital to treat Covid-19 patients.

Today the whole world is struggling to manage the global crisis of COVID-19 and Bangladesh has been listed as one of the 25 high risk countries.

Dhaka is eerie quiet, much like most capitals and countries around the world as they grapple with a common enemy -- the spread of the coronavirus. Bangladesh is currently in the midst of a country-wide shut down that has been in force from March 26 and will extend till April 4.

The present pandemic COVID-19 has created havoc in the world throwing millions out of jobs and means of livelihoods.

Spain yesterday reported a national daily record of 838 coronavirus deaths in a fresh warning to the world that long-term lockdowns may be needed to halt the deadly march of a disease that has claimed more than 31,000 lives.