Four people were killed in separate road crashes over the last two days, report our correspondent and a news agency.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh bars three Bangladeshis from entering the country after they arrived from Sweden in a Qatar Airways flight.

Family members, friends and colleagues of the missing journalist Shafiqul Islam Kajol form two separate human chains demanding that the authorities find him immediately.

The High Court directs the health ministry to issue a gazette notification by tomorrow declaring coronavirus a contagious disease and including the virus in the list of communicable diseases.

The High Court (HC) has granted a four-week anticipatory bail to Bangla daily Manabzamin Editor-in-chief Matiur Rahman Chowdhury who was sued under Digital Security Act on charge of “publishing false news and circulating it on social media”.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) imposes a ban on gathering at Patenga sea beach in the port city this afternoon to prevent risk of spreading coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has unveiled the cover of “Voice of Millions” on the occasion of Bangabandhu’s birth centenary.

Four doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) were sent to home quarantine yesterday, since all four handled an identified coronavirus patient without any protective gear for over a week.

Mobile courts in different districts fine at least 12 expatriates for not abiding by the government-mandated home-quarantine of 14 days.

A man, who was sent to Dhaka's Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital from Gazipur recently, has tested positive for coronavirus.

A Dhaka court has framed charges against Mizanur Rahman, suspended deputy inspector general of police, and Khandaker Enamul Basir, suspended director of the Anti-Corruption Commission, in a bribery case.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrests one person from Chattogram city for allegedly spreading rumours about coronavirus on social media.

A youth from Sylhet is walking from Gopalganj’s Tungipara to Dhaka city’s Dhanmondi 32, as a tribute to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on his birth centenary.

Academics yesterday urged youths to follow the ideals of Bangabandhu for building a prosperous “Sonar Bangla”

A total of 46 murals of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman were inaugurated on as many union parishad compounds in Thakurgaon yesterday.

Owners of buses plying different long routes on Chattogram-Rangamati and Chattogram-Khagrachari roads yesterday provided free service to passengers on the birth centenary of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

At a time when the government has declared shut down of educational institutions and discouraged gatherings as precautionary measures against the possible spread of coronavirus in the country, candidates for the upcoming port city polls seem unperturbed by it and are continuing to hold rallies and public meetings.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday launched a hand-washing campaign for pedestrians in the capital, to contain the spread of coronavirus infection.

Dhaka University (DU) authorities yesterday started celebration of Mujib Borsho, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

A team of Gonoshasthaya-RNA Biotech Limited, a concern of Gonoshasthaya Kendra, has been developing a kit to detect the novel coronavirus at an affordable price.