The Migrant Workers' Centre (MWC) in Singapore is sending a $10,000 donation via telegraphic bank transfer to the family of a 39-year-old Bangladeshi worker who tested positive for the coronavirus on February 8.

Iran's confirmed death toll from the new coronavirus rises to eight, the highest outside China, sending neighbouring countries scrambling to contain the outbreak.

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) advises people to avoid foreign tours which are not mandatory to stay safe from the novel coronavirus infection.

South Korea raises its infectious disease alert level to its highest for the first time since 2009 as confirmed coronavirus cases jump to 602 and the death toll rises to five.

Iran orders the closure of schools, universities and cultural centres after a coronavirus outbreak that has killed five people in the Islamic republic -- the most outside the Far East.

The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the number of coronavirus cases with no clear epidemiological link, although the total number of cases outside China remains relatively small, its director-general said on Saturday.

Any unnecessary panic over coronavirus will intensify danger and create obstacles to preventing probable infection, says Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Samsung Electronics says that one coronavirus case had been confirmed at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there until Monday morning.

The United Arab Emirates says it registered two new coronavirus cases, including one Bangladeshi national, bringing the total number of people diagnosed with the virus in the Gulf Arab state to 11.

The coronavirus has spread to several Iranian cities, a health ministry official says, as an outbreak that the authorities say began in the holy city of Qom caused two more deaths.

Airlines worldwide stand to lose a combined $29.3 billion of revenue this year amidst the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said today.

Chinese suffering under harsh measures used to fight the deadly new coronavirus should recognise that similar methods have been deployed against China's minorities for years, an exiled Uighur rights activist said this week.

The streets of South Korea’s fourth-largest city are found abandoned, with residents holed up indoors after dozens of people caught the coronavirus in what the authorities described as a “super-spreading event” at a church.

London would be ready to host the 2020 Olympics if the outbreak of the coronavirus forced the Games to be moved from Tokyo, Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for mayor of the British capital, says.

China has reported a big drop in new coronavirus cases, fuelling hopes the epidemic is nearing its peak, but Japan faced a growing crisis as two passengers from a quarantined cruise ship died.

One of the Bangladeshis infected with coronavirus or Covid-19 in Singapore is now in “very critical state” and is not responding to the medicine given to him, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said.

Hundreds of relieved passengers have disembarked a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan after testing negative for the disease that has now claimed more than 2,000 lives in China and spread panic worldwide.

Banking giant HSBC today axed 35,000 jobs, far more than expected, and posted slumping annual profits and warned over the financial impact of the deadly coronavirus.

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Japan is aiming to start trials soon using an HIV treatment for the coronavirus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said.