Two more coronavirus patients have died in the last 24 hours in the country, taking the number of deaths from the infection to eight, IEDCR says.

The US government is now recommending Americans wear cloth face-coverings on a voluntary basis to stem the spread of the coronavirus, President Donald Trump said on Friday, although he said he himself would not use one.

Bangladesh expresses deep condolences at the loss of lives due to the coronavirus outbreak in China as the country observes Mourning Day.

China has come to a standstill to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus, as the world's most populous country observed a nationwide three-minute silence.

World Bank Group President David Malpass says the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic was expected to cause a “major global recession” that would likely hit the poorest and most vulnerable countries the hardest.

The United States records nearly 1,500 deaths from COVID-19 between Thursday and Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, the worst 24-hour death toll globally since the pandemic began.

The World Health Organization emphasises on a stronger effort from society and governments in South-East Asia to prevent a long-haul struggle with the coronavirus pandemic and avert further loss of human life and other resources.

The United Kingdom's death toll from the coronavirus rises by 684 to 3,605 in a day.

Fifty-five eminent citizens and organisations today issued a joint statement demanding the government to take immediate steps, including providing food assistance and other necessary things to one crore at-risk families for at least three months, to protect citizens amid the coronavirus outbreak.

For the first time in Chattogram, a 67-year-old man tests positive for coronavirus.

Bill Withers, a soulful singer best known for the 1970s hits "Lean on Me,” “Lovely Day” and “Ain’t No Sunshine,” dies at age 81 from heart complications.

The Bangladeshis stranded in India following the nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak will have to wait till the lockdown is relaxed to return, officials concerned say.

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) refutes a report that only Army and Navy will distribute government-provided relief materials from now on.

The English Premier League is suspended indefinitely following a meeting of the 20 soccer clubs where a series of financial measures were discussed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

English newspaper Daily Sun’s Patuakhali correspondent is beaten up by a group of people while he was capturing footage of a clash over the grabbing of a fish enclosure in the district’s Galachipa upazila.

Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), a rights organisation, appeals to the prime minister to make a stimulus package of Tk 300 crore for junior lawyers across the country who rely on the court to function for their income.

Three houses in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila are placed under lockdown after a local man was hospitalised with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Stray dogs kill three fawns and their mother in Rajshahi zoo.

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern over patients being denied treatment in many hospitals of the country due to coronavirus fears.

Policemen, reportedly influenced by an alleged land grabber, break the fence a remote Mro community village had put up to isolate the community in Bandarban’s Lama upazila.