In a bid to control the spread of coronavirus, the Gulf country Kuwait has restricted entry of people from 10 countries including Bangladesh and India, according to both Gulf News and Khaleej Times.

One Bangladeshi living in Italy’s Milan has contracted the novel coronavirus that originated in China’s Wuhan city and has now created a worldwide panic.

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The death toll from coronavirus in Italy jumps to 52 and the total number of confirmed cases in Europe’s worst affected country climbs past the 2,000 mark.

India reports two more cases of coronavirus, including one in New Delhi, taking the number of positive cases to five so far.

Author and activist Arundhati Roy has said the Modi government is acting as though the constitution does not exist and they are doing everything to completely dismantle democracy.

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death for fatally stabbing two officials at a checkpoint set up to control the spread of the new coronavirus outbreak.

Experts think that the new coronavirus might end up being a seasonal flu and will probably continue to circulate indefinitely.

Washington state health officials report the first patient death from coronavirus in the United States, according to a news release.

The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in Italy jumped to 888, of whom 21 have died, officials say.

South Korea reports its biggest surge in new coronavirus cases as concerns grow of a possible epidemic in the United States and the World Health Organization raises its risk alert to its highest level.

Nigeria reports the first new coronavirus case in sub-Saharan Africa, as global stock markets tank on deepening fears of a pandemic and the World Health Organization warn against the "fatal mistake" of complacency.

Moscow authorities are rounding up stray animals and exterminating rats as a precaution against the new coronavirus, actions that animal rights campaigners decry as cruel and scientifically groundless.

Around 10,000 Bangladeshis with Umrah visas remain uncertain about performing their pilgrimage as the Saudi government has imposed a temporary ban on foreigners’ entry to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Iran's health ministry says its death toll from coronavirus has risen to 26 and the total number of infected people now stands at 245, the highest number of deaths from the virus outside China.

All Japan’s elementary, junior and high schools will be asked to close from March 2 until their upcoming spring break to help contain the coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe tells a task force fighting the virus.

Saudi Arabia suspends foreigners' entry for the Umrah pilgrimage and tourism from countries where the new coronavirus has spread, as a growing number of cases outside China deepened fears of a pandemic.

Twenty-three Bangladeshi nationals have been evacuated from China's Wuhan city -- epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak -- on a special Indian flight which landed in Delhi today.

Pakistan has confirmed its first two cases of coronavirus but both patients are in a "stable" condition, the country's health minister says.

Iran's deputy health minister confirms that he has tested positive for the new coronavirus, amid a major outbreak in the Islamic republic.