The world has a “window of opportunity” to halt the spread of coronavirus, global health experts said, as the number of people infected in China jumped to 25,000 and millions more were ordered to stay indoors.

Indian authorities have set up coronavirus screening and testing centres along the borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials say.

The prices of most everyday commodities including onion, ginger and garlic have risen at the country's largest wholesale market at Chattogram's Khatunganj, largely due to the spread of coronavirus in China.

Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China’s Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73 percent of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirmed infections.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the construction of Padma Bridge will be affected if the coronavirus situation does not improve within the next two months.

The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China has passed 490 as two US airlines suspended flights to Hong Kong following the first fatality there and 10 cases were confirmed on a quarantined Japanese cruise ship.

A plane carrying passengers from the Chinese city of Kunming landed at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:15pm yesterday. An aircraft of Turkish Airlines arrived from Istanbul around the same time.

China has agreed to allow US health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization (WHO) effort to help fight the fast-spreading coronavirus, as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount.

Bangladesh has advised all airlines that fly between the country and China to make health clearance mandatory from the government health administration of the latter while carrying passengers from China with valid visa.

Hong Kong reports its first coronavirus death, a 39-year-old male who had been suffering from an underlying illness and had visited China's Wuhan city in January, hospital staff says, marking the second death outside mainland China.

China's top leadership has admitted "shortcomings and difficulties" in its response to the coronavirus outbreak, as state media said a new hospital built at breakneck pace began receiving patients in the epicentre of the crisis.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says Bangladeshis in China will have to make their own arrangements to return home and no aircraft will be sent to bring them back.

None of the eight hospitalised Bangladeshis, who were brought to Dhaka from China on a special flight, have Coronavirus, according to tests by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

The Singapore government rejects the visa applications of all members of the Biman crew who on Sunday brought back 312 Bangladeshis from the Coronavirus-hit Chinese city of Wuhan.

The first patients arrived today at a 1,000-bed hospital built in 10 days as part of China’s efforts to fight a new virus.

Hundreds of Hong Kong medical workers have walked off their jobs, demanding the city close its border with China to reduce the coronavirus spreading -- with frontline staff threatening to follow suit in the coming days.

The West Bengal government has introduced medical screening of passengers at three new points along the border it shares with Bangladesh owing to the coronavirus outbreak in China, which has now spread to many countries.

The death toll from the new coronavirus outbreak in China’s central Hubei province has rose by 56 to 350, Chinese state television reported citing official figures.

Bangladesh has decided to stop issuing on-arrival visas for Chinese nationals amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

The Philippines reports the first overseas death from the growing epidemic of a coronavirus that originated in China, where new confirmed infections jumped by a daily record to top 14,000 cases.