National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines has suspended flights on the Dhaka-Kuala Lumpur route.

The Taj Mahal in Agra and several other key historical monuments across India shut to visitors as part of the country’s ramped-up measures to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Malaysian Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has announced measures to restrict movement nationwide, starting from March 18 until 31, in a bid to stem the rising number of coronavirus cases.

Two more persons have been infected with novel coronavirus (Covid-19), raising the number of patients to 10, IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said today.

A 64-year-old COVID-19 patient has passed away at Mumbai’s Kasturba hospital taking total fatalities to three India. The other two deaths have been reported from Delhi and Karnataka.

British actor Idris Elba says he tested positive for the new coronavirus, joining Tom Hanks and his wife, Rita Wilson, among the first major celebrities to contract the respiratory disease.

The first human trial to evaluate a candidate vaccine against the new coronavirus has begun in Seattle, US health officials has said Monday, raising hopes in the global fight against the disease.

Tom Hanks has been released from the Australian hospital where he was in isolation since testing positive for the coronavirus last week, but his wife Rita Wilson remains hospitalised.

India shuts down all educational institutions, gymnasiums, museums, cultural and social centres, swimming pools and theatres till March 31 to contain the spread of coronavirus.

At a time when hand sanitisers are being hoarded in the panic over the coronavirus outbreak, the most effective tool to combat the virus -- the soap -- should not be overlooked.

Bangladesh has urged all countries to "stand united" and help each other overcome the coronavirus outbreak, which may paralyse the whole world.

The cabinet issues set of directives, including sending returnees from abroad to a 14-day compulsory quarantine as part of precautionary measures against the coronavirus.

Unilever, along with mobile operators Robi, Grameenphone and Banglalink today asked all their employees to stay at home and work online as a preventive measure against coronavirus infection.

A total of 304 Bangladeshi passengers, including 95 from Italy and Germany, lands at Dhaka airport.

The government will brief diplomats stationed in Dhaka at 6:00pm today at State Guesthouse Padma on the coronavirus issue.

Oman has suspends air communication with Bangladesh from this evening, Deputy General Manager of Public Relations at Biman Bangladesh Airlines Tahera Khandaker tells The Daily Star.

Foreign nationals staying in Bangladesh with valid visas will have the option of extending their visas by three months, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA).

Three more persons were diagnosed with COVID-19 in Bangladesh yesterday, raising the current number of affected people in the country to five, says Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Education Minister Dipu Moni today said all educational institutions will remain closed till March 31, starting from tomorrow, as a preventive measure against spread of the coronavirus.

Bars, restaurants, theatres and movie houses in New York and Los Angeles were ordered to shut down and several nations in South and Central America closed their borders in the latest moves around the world to combat the spread of the coronavirus.