The United States could become the global epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as India announced a full 24-hour nationwide lockdown in the world’s second-most populous country.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has urged leaders of the world’s 20 major industrialized nations on Tuesday to adopt a “wartime” plan including a stimulus package “in the trillions of dollars” for businesses, workers and households in developing countries trying to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Mainland China reported a drop in new confirmed coronavirus cases as imported infections fell and no locally transmitted infections are reported, including in central Hubei province, the epicentre of the outbreak in China.

Facebook says the coronavirus pandemic has users flocking to its services while it undermines ad revenue on which the world's biggest social network depends.

An Arizona man dies and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate - an aquarium cleaning product similar to drugs that have been named by President Trump as potential treatments for coronavirus infection.

Terrence McNally, a revered American playwright, librettist and screenwriter whose long career earned him four Tony awards and an Emmy, dies following coronavirus complications aged 81.

Law enforcers placed an apartment in Chattogram’s Chandgaon and an entire building in the port city’s Bakalia area on lockdown last night after a person tested positive for coronavirus.

The government has repeatedly been asking people to stay home in a desperate attempt to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. It also announced closure of all public and private offices to make people stay indoors.

Amid mounting concerns over the spread of coronavirus, police have so far been able to locate and ensure the quarantine of only 2.7 percent of the total number of returnees from different countries in the last three month.

The government has decided to suspend all public transport services to slow the spread of novel coronavirus, inching closer to enforcing a lockdown.

With the outbreak of deadly coronavirus all across the world, global companies like Google, LinkedIn, Amazon, Twitter and may others have already asked all or a portion of their employees to stay at home and operate from there.

As the spreading coronavirus has largely paralysed public movement and social life, internet usage has shot up 15 per cent in Bangladesh as people are increasingly relying on digital life for communication, work and entertainment to escape the doom and gloom brought on by the novel virus.

The apprehension of a potential lockdown to rein in the coronavirus spread has led to the stockpiling of some essential commodities but businesses said there was nothing to be worried about.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says China will provide Bangladesh with coronavirus testing kits, personal protection equipment (PPE), and other medical equipment as gift to Bangladesh on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day.

Global airlines urge governments to speed up bailouts to rescue the air transport industry as they doubled their estimate of 2020 revenue losses from the coronavirus crisis to more than $250 billion.

A woman has been beaten up by family members of a UAE returnee in Noakhali's Companiganj upazila as she allegedly informed police that the returnee was violating home quarantine.

Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) will go to people’s homes to recharge electricity meters if stores with point of sales are closed during the upcoming days.

Department of Livestock Services (DLS) provides 1,155 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for doctors and healthcare providers in Sylhet division.

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN refugee agency, airlifts more than four tonnes of medical aid items, including supplies to support the Covid-19 response in Iran.

The holidays for employees of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh and Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection have been cancelled to keep control over the prices and supply of essentials.