Bidyanondo, a non-profit social welfare organization which has been engaged in distributing personal protective equipment for free owing to a growing demand during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, have appealed for grants from the masses.

Close to one billion people worldwide were confined to their homes on Saturday as the global coronavirus death toll shot past 11,000, with 4,000 alone in worst-hit Italy where the daily number of fatalities has shot up relentlessly over the past week.

Police today arrested a doctor in Chattogram for circulating an audio clip on coronavirus related deaths that went viral on social media several days back.

Iran’s death toll from the coronavirus outbreak rises by more than 100 to 1,556 and the total number of people infected now exceeds 20,000, a health ministry official says.

The country’s only state-owned distillery has already produced hand sanitisers on a test basis and will start marketing it soon at affordable prices.

Founder of Alibaba and one of the richest persons in Asia, Jack Ma, has announced that his firm will donate emergency supplies to 10 Asian countries including Bangladesh.

The World Health Organization (WHO) suggests Bangladesh government take urgent action to fight the coronavirus outbreak.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) will support Bangladesh in tackling the coronavirus outbreak, said Manmohan Parkash, ADB country director for Bangladesh.

Thirty families of a building in Mirpur have limited their movement after a neighbour, who tested positive for coronavirus, died in a private hospital.

Election Commission postpones Chattogram City Corporation election and by-polls to two constituencies due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

A second Bangladeshi -- who tested positive for coronavirus -- has died, and four more persons have been detected with Covid-19, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 24.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says the government will soon import 10,000 testing kits and 10,000 protective equipment from China to fight the spread of coronavirus.

Coronavirus can sicken or kill young people as well and they must also avoid mingling and spreading it to older and more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization has said.

A Bangladeshi expatriate in Italy’s Milan has died after being tested positive for Covid-19, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

Popular mountaineer and social activist Wasfia Nazreen has tested positive for the coronavirus and is currently in quarantine, she claimed in a Facebook post today.

Bangladesh has suspended all international fights except on four routes -- UK, China, Hong Kong and Thailand -- from today [midnight] till March 31, following the global coronavirus outbreak.

Amid aspirants’ fears over coronavirus, the Bankers' Selection Committee Secretariat is taking viva voce for the post of ‘Assistant Executive Officer (AEO)’ of Janata Bank Limited.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak says that they would work to fix a business continuity plan through standard operating procedures to keep services running amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials say, an increase of 18.4% -- by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged.

The Cannes Film Festival, the world’s largest, was forced to postpone its latest edition in May due to the spread of the coronavirus, organisers of the annual event on the French Riviera said recently.