A confusion has emerged over the decision to put Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha under lockdown, after a upazila committee to contain coronavirus, led by a UNO, made the recommendation to do so in a letter to the district administration.

Three people are sent to jail for spreading rumours of a death case caused by coronavirus in Khagrachhari district.

The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources instructs people to pay the bills for the months of February, March and April in May. The late fines will also be waived for the three months.

The authority of the Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital decides to provide its doctors and nurses necessary protective equipment amid the coronavirus outbreak.

All shopping complexes and malls in the country will remain closed from March 25 to 31, says Helal Uddin, chairman of Bangladesh Dokan Malik Samity.

The National Board of Revenue (NBR) removes all forms of import duties and taxes from 12 items, including personal protective equipment (PPE), raw materials used in hand sanitisers, coronavirus testing kits and surgical masks.

A total of 23,000 Bangladeshi expatriates have returned to Jashore from different countries in the last month, but only 332 people are placed in home quarantine.

A mobile court has fined an expatriate Tk 10,000 for not following the government’s direction of 14-day home quarantine at Ghior in Manikganj.

India records two more coronavirus deaths, taking the death toll from the infection to six and confirmed cases to 324, the country’s health ministry officials said.

The Supreme Court issues a circular announcing postponement of most activities of the lower court, except those dealing with bails, temporary bans and other emergency tasks, for a “reasonable period” amid the Coronavirus outbreak.

To check the spread of coronavirus, India announces a halt to movement of most trains and inter-state buses till March 31, our New Delhi correspondent reports.

An angry mob kills a suspected thief in Rupganj upazila of Narayanganj, after snatching him away from police.

Bangladesh has suspended entry of all foreign nationals through the land ports of the country to prevent spread of coronavirus, according to a government gazette.

On March 15, during the video conference among Saarc leaders, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who initiated the conference in the wake of Covid-19 crisis, proposed creation of the fund and made an initial offer of $10 million.

Three members of a fraud gang -- who misappropriated about Tk 50 lakh from over 100 bank accounts in Dhaka, Faridpur and Cox’s Bazar -- have been arrested, Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police has claimed.

Three people, who were injured in yesterday’s road accident in Chattogram, succumbed, raising the death toll to 15.

Locals recover a dead Gangetic dolphin (Platanista gangetica) from Halda River in Hathazari upazila of Chattogram.

Authorities decide to keep factories open amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, adding that the decision is subject to consideration based on how the overall situation unfolds.

Police detain a person, reportedly a local journalist, and place him in quarantine in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur.

A college student and a former ward councillor were hacked in Pirojpur town, apparently in counter attacks yesterday noon.