All government offices will be closed from March 26 to April 4 to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the cabinet secretary said today.

All government offices will be closed from March 26 to April 4 to prevent the spread of coronavirus, the cabinet secretary said today.

Road, Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said that a 500-member committee had been formed to tackle the coronavirus situation in the country.

One more coronavirus patient has died in Bangladesh while six new cases have been confirmed by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s initial test for coronavirus came back negative, a government spokesman says, adding that Merkel will undergo further tests.

The United Nations will create a fund to support the treatment of coronavirus patients worldwide, Norway’s foreign ministry has said.

Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) has urged doctors all over the country to come forward in service of humanity and help combat the coronavirus outbreak.

Awami League (AL) and its associate organisations today cancelled all activities marking the country’s Independence Day.

Amidst a lockdown across vast swathes of India, a 68-year-old Filipino, who had recovered after he was tested coronavirus positive, died in a hospital in Mumbai raising the death toll from coronavirus in India to eight.

The Department of Immigration and Passports (DIP) suspends electronic and machine-readable passport (MRP) operations, as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, US media reports.

An Italy-returnee with coronavirus symptoms died at a hospital in Bhairab of Kishoreganj last night, Civil Surgeon Mujibur Rahman has said.

The US Department of Justice announces it had shut down a website claiming to sell a coronavirus vaccine, in its first act of federal enforcement against fraud in connection with the pandemic.

Saudi Arabia imposes a nationwide curfew starting after reporting a jump of almost a quarter in coronavirus cases, while the United Arab Emirates will suspend all passenger and transit flights to and from the country.

The medical officer, who treated a coronavirus patient at the capital’s Delta Medical College Hospital, has also tested positive for the virus.

As some people with more regularised jobs and businesses gradually begin to work from home or enter stay-home modes across the country, livelihoods of low-income people are being hit hard.

A resident of Tolarbagh area in the capital's Mirpur died this evening, after which a 'restriction on movement' has been instituted in the area.

Countries can't simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization's top emergency expert Mike Ryan says, adding that public health measures are needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on.

A confusion has emerged over the decision to put Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha under lockdown, after a upazila committee to contain coronavirus, led by a UNO, made the recommendation to do so in a letter to the district administration.

Three people are sent to jail for spreading rumours of a death case caused by coronavirus in Khagrachhari district.