United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN refugee agency, airlifts more than four tonnes of medical aid items, including supplies to support the Covid-19 response in Iran.

The holidays for employees of Trading Corporation of Bangladesh and Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection have been cancelled to keep control over the prices and supply of essentials.

Another coronavirus patient, aged around 70, has died in Bangladesh while six more new cases have been confirmed by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

The UK-returnee, who died in isolation at a Sylhet hospital on Sunday, was not infected with coronavirus, according to a report of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

The closure of all types of educational institutions, including coaching centres, has been extended till April 9 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

All flights on domestic routes will be suspended from 12:01am today, Mohibul Haque, senior secretary of the Civil Aviation and Tourism Ministry, told The Daily Star.

All expatriate Bangladeshis who arrived in the country from March 1 are asked to notify local police stations of their current locations and mobile numbers.

China has announced that a lockdown would be lifted on more than 50 million people in central Hubei province where the coronavirus first emerged late last year.

Dhaka University authorities have limited public and transport movement on the campus to prevent spread of coronavirus.

Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah is freed after nearly eight months of detention.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has announced suspension of launch service from this afternoon to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Public transport services will remain suspended from March 26 to April 4 across the country to prevent spread of coronavirus, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said.

An Indian freight train derails at the Bangabandhu Bridge west railway station in Sirajganj.

As India remains in a lockdown to check the spread of coronavirus, police have evicted protesters from Shaheen Bagh, the ground zero of the recent agitation against Citizenship (Amendment) Act.

A loss of smell or taste might be an early sign of infection with the pandemic virus, say medical experts who cite reports from several countries.

Myanmar reports its first confirmed cases of coronavirus in two men who recently travelled to the United States and the United Kingdom.

The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating, the World Health Organization (WHO) says, with more than 300,000 cases now recorded and infections reported from nearly every country.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy rose by 602 on Monday, the smallest increase for four days, while the number of new cases also slowed, raising hope that the most aggressive phase of the epidemic may be passing.

A clearly unhappy Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says people defying advice to isolate themselves to fight a coronavirus outbreak should “go home and stay home” or face sanctions.

Syria says it has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, in a person who came from abroad.