Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ji Liming has advised not to bring back 172 Bangladeshi students in China’s Hubei Province as there is a risk of spreading coronavirus.

The number of reported new cases of coronavirus in China’s Hubei province rises after two days of falls, as authorities imposed tough new restrictions on movement to prevent the spread of the disease which has now killed more than 1,700 people.

A 24-year-old Thai man is thought to be the first victim of a hate crime linked to coronavirus in England, The Guardian reported today.

The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday, more than three weeks after the outbreak’s epicenter was locked down, and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France, the first fatality in Europe.

The corona-virus, which has already killed hundreds of people in China and is now making its way across the globe, will inevitably cause significant disruption to apparel supply chains during 2020. The question is, to what extent, for how long, and how will Bangladesh be impacted?

Coronavirus is the latest topic globally and people are becoming scared day by day. It indeed is a matter of concern, but you do not have to be scared about it so much.

One more Bangladeshi national in Singapore has been infected with the novel coronavirus, Singapore’s Ministry of Health says.

The United States says it will send an aircraft to Japan to bring back US passengers on the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, where the most coronavirus infections outside China have occurred.

An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalised in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said today.

The new coronavirus has infected 1,700 Chinese health workers and killed six, authorities said yesterday, as businesses struggled to balance containment measures with a return from an extended post-holiday break.

Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers in Singapore have been infected with the novel coronavirus— recently named Covid-19—with links to the previous two cases being confirmed, The Straits Times reports.

On Wednesday, GSM Association (GSMA), the London based industry organisation that represents the global mobile industry, pulled the plug on the 2020 Mobile World Congress show. The show's organiser said the coronavirus, the virus infecting tens of thousands of people globally and originating from China, had made it "impossible" for the show to proceed.

A cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over fears that someone aboard might have the coronavirus arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, to the relief of passengers and praise from global health officials.

The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reports a record rise in the death toll under a new method for diagnosing cases, as health experts warned the epidemic could get worse before it gets better.

Seventeen Chinese sailors, who were stuck in a ship docked at Sitakunda coast for five days, are set to return to their country tonight on a flight departing from Shah Amanat International Airport in the capital, reports our Chattogram correspondent.

China reports its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January, lending weight to a prediction by its senior medical adviser that the outbreak could end by April.

Two more people in Singapore, including another Bangladeshi worker, have been infected with coronavirus, The Straits Times reports.

The World Health Organization (WHO) urges global unity to prevent “far more cases and far higher costs” from coronavirus disease -- now officially named COVID-19.

Around two-thirds of the world population could be affected by the coronavirus if it cannot be contained, Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist said today, according to a report by The Guardian.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen expresses deep condolences for the loss of lives due to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan city and other places in China.