The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources instructs people to pay the bills for the months of February, March and April in May. The late fines will also be waived for the three months.

The authority of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital decides to provide its doctors and nurses necessary protective equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak.

All shopping complexes and malls in the country will remain closed from March 25 to 31, says Helal Uddin, chairman of Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) removes all forms of import duties and taxes from 12 items, including personal protective equipment (PPE), raw materials used in hand sanitisers, coronavirus testing kits and surgical masks.

A total of 23,000 Bangladeshi expatriates have returned to Jashore from different countries in the last month, but only 332 people are placed in home quarantine.

A mobile court has fined an expatriate Tk 10,000 for not following the government’s direction of 14-day home quarantine at Ghior in Manikganj.

India records two more coronavirus deaths, taking the death toll from the infection to six and confirmed cases to 324, the country’s health ministry officials said.

The Supreme Court issues a circular announcing postponement of most activities of the lower court, except those dealing with bails, temporary bans and other emergency tasks, for a “reasonable period” amid the Coronavirus outbreak.

Three more people have tested positive for coronavirus in the country, raising the total infected cases in Bangladesh to 27, said Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for April 1 have been postponed due to fears over spread of coronavirus.

Bangladesh has suspended entry of all foreign nationals through the land ports of the country to prevent spread of coronavirus, according to a government gazette.

On March 15, during the video conference among Saarc leaders, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who initiated the conference in the wake of Covid-19 crisis, proposed creation of the fund and made an initial offer of $10 million.

The health ministry has postponed the biometric attendance of staff and officials at all government healthcare organisations including hospitals due to the outbreak of coronavirus in Bangladesh.

The High Court today ordered the authorities concerned of the government to collect personal protective equipment (PPEs) and supply those to the doctors, nurses and staff members at all hospitals and clinics across the country to prevent spread of the virus.

The streets were emptied of people and most modes of transport, and markets downed shutters across India as the country of 130 crore people plunged into an unprecedented shutdown, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal for a “Janata Curfew” to help check the spread of coronavirus.

Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.

A UK-returnee, who was put under isolation at a Sylhet hospital with coronavirus symptoms, has died. She returned from London on March 4 and was suffering from fever, cough and breathing problems for the last 10 days, the civil surgeon said.

Authorities decide to keep factories open amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, adding that the decision is subject to consideration based on how the overall situation unfolds.

The death toll from coronavirus outbreak in Italy has leaped by 793 to 4,825, officials say, an increase of 19.6% -- by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged.

Police detain a person, reportedly a local journalist, and place him in quarantine in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur.