A resident of Tolarbagh area in the capital's Mirpur died this evening, after which a 'restriction on movement' has been instituted in the area.

Following concerns over shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE) for doctors and nurses, a concerted effort by six organisations is set to produce four lakh pieces of equipment.

A 5.3 magnitude earthquake struck near the Croatian capital Zagreb, leaving a teenager critically injured after an apartment building in the city collapsed, the GFZ German Research Center for Geosciences and a hospital official say.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is set to address the nation in the evening of March 25.

Countries can't simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus, the World Health Organization's top emergency expert Mike Ryan says, adding that public health measures are needed to avoid a resurgence of the virus later on.

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.

Here are the news headlines so far on March 22, 2020

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

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.

Private airliner Regent Airways suspends all its flights -- five international routes and one domestic route -- for three months from today, following the global coronavirus outbreak.

Students of Public Health Department of North South University announced some hotlines numbers so that people can get helpful information and suggestions from public health experts amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Acclaimed medicine specialist and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s personal physician Dr ABM Abdullah speaks to The Daily Star about the coronavirus outbreak, what is being done, who is at risk and what are the ways of dealing with the situation.

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.