A team of experts has successfully installed a “disinfection room” at Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital in the capital amid intense need for personal protective equipment (PPE) for health service professionals to fight the coronavirus pandemic.

Two people die in Khulna and Patuakhali with coronavirus-like symptoms.

More than 100 families residing at the President's Estate of India, which houses the Rashtrapati Bhavan, went on self-isolation after a sanitation worker's relative tested positive for coronavirus, officials say.

Nine people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A total of 32 policemen under Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) and Gazipur district have tested positive for coronavirus.

An unidentified elderly sick man aged around 65 was left at a char on the Jamuna river in Pabna’s Bera upazila for two days. He was unfed and untreated until a team led by an upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) along with medical staff rescued him yesterday evening.

Bogura district will be brought under lockdown from today to combat the spread of coronavirus.

The number of doctors infected with Covid-19 so far crosses 200, according to a tally of the Bangladesh Doctors Foundation.

A South Texas emergency room physician chooses a novel place to self-isolate as he’s treating patients with the novel coronavirus.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has formed a committee to investigate allegations of low-quality products including N-95 masks being supplied to some government hospitals.

US crude prices bounced back into positive territory, a day after crashing below $0.00 for the first time owing to crippled demand and a storage glut, while the commodity rout sent Asian equities sharply lower.

Asian Development Bank (ADB) commits $600 million to support Bangladesh in facing challenges presented by the coronavirus outbreak.

India’s state-owned Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) is initiating a clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of a drug, which is meant for saving lives of critically ill patients suffering from Gram-negative sepsis, to reduce the deaths of critically ill Covid-19 patients.

India has decided to allow the use of surplus rice stored in government godowns to make alcohol-based hand sanitisers, as its demand has soared in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

The 193 members of the UN General Assembly adopt by consensus a resolution that calls for "equitable, efficient and timely" access to any future vaccines developed to fight coronavirus.

President Donald Trump says that he would temporarily suspend immigration to the United States because of the new coronavirus pandemic, despite the US already being the worst-hit country in the world.

The coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating threats to press freedom around the world, with authoritarian states including China and Iran suppressing details of the outbreak, activists have said

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was not gravely ill, two South Korean government sources said on Tuesday, following reports he had undergone a cardiovascular procedure and was now in "grave danger".

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishment (DIFE) has started telemedicine healthcare services related to the coronavirus for workers in formal and informal sectors from today.

Wall Street fell sharply on Monday after US crude futures turned negative for the first time in history, underscoring the chaos the coronavirus pandemic has unleashed on the global economy.