The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China passes 1,000 people, health authorities announces.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says around 90,245 people were screened at airports, river, sea and land ports of the country as of February 10 in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in China.

Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) got approval to resume production at a key China plant after being forced to shut it following a coronavirus outbreak, but only 10% of the factory’s workforce has managed to return so far, a source tells Reuters.

Testing aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan reveals 60 more confirmed cases of coronavirus as quarantined passengers take to social media to warn of depression setting in over their confinement.

A student who returned from China and later got admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital with respiratory problems has tested negative for coronavirus.

Mainland China has reported another rise in cases of the new virus after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grow by 97 to 908, with at least two more outside the country.

A Bangladeshi worker and a 71-year-old grandfather are among three new coronavirus cases confirmed in Singapore, says the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore.

The office of the civil surgeons in Jashore is yet to start screening inbound train passengers from India, a country with confirmed coronavirus cases, at Benapole land port.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus surged past 800 in mainland China today, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be "stabilising".

Foreigners who have travelled to China on January 15 and after will be barred from entering India by land, air and sea routes in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus has surged past 800 in mainland China, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be "stabilising".

Not only those coming from China, but all passengers will be screened at the airports from now on, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has stated.

A 60-year old US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at Jinyintan Hospital in China’s Wuhan, a US embassy spokesman in Beijing says, in what appeared to be the first death of an American from the outbreak.

The death toll from China's coronavirus outbreak has soared to 722 as Hong Kong imposed a mandatory quarantine on mainland arrivals to block the spread of an epidemic that has caused global panic.

Health authorities have issued the highest alert at Benapole land port in Jashore to detect patients infected with Coronavirus.

Opposition Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque in Parliament demands that the government investigates the allegations of negligence in screening inbound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, amid the Coronavirus scare.

Just two weeks ago, Ahmed Pharmacy, a small medicine store at Farmgate, had less than five customers looking for masks. But in the past week, the number of people buying masks has almost quadrupled, as panic around coronavirus spreads. The pharmacy is almost out of disposable surgical and N95 masks.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming suggests all to remain alert but not to create any panic, saying that no Chinese national here and no Bangladesh national in China is infected with coronavirus.

A newborn baby in China has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus just 30 hours after birth, the youngest case recorded so far, state media said.

China has scrambled to find bed space for thousands of newly infected patients, as the toll from a deadly new virus jumped again.