Three more people have tested positive for coronavirus in the country, raising the total infected cases in Bangladesh to 27, said Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).

Three more Bangladeshis who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport with high fever from United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Malaysia have been sent to a hospital in Dhaka.

The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations scheduled for April 1 have been postponed due to fears over spread of coronavirus.

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.

The weekly cabinet meeting will not be held tomorrow.

A councilor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has directed the closure of all kinds of food shops including restaurants and bakeries under ward number 75 to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The health ministry has postponed the biometric attendance of staff and officials at all government healthcare organisations including hospitals due to the outbreak of coronavirus in Bangladesh.

The High Court today ordered the authorities concerned of the government to collect personal protective equipment (PPEs) and supply those to the doctors, nurses and staff members at all hospitals and clinics across the country to prevent spread of the virus.

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.

The streets were emptied of people and most modes of transport, and markets downed shutters across India as the country of 130 crore people plunged into an unprecedented shutdown, responding to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal for a “Janata Curfew” to help check the spread of coronavirus.

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

A man is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area hours after he was arrested from Airport Road area.

Air quality is improving in countries under coronavirus quarantines, experts say, but it is far too early to speak of long-term change.

A UK-returnee, who was put under isolation at a Sylhet hospital with coronavirus symptoms, has died. She returned from London on March 4 and was suffering from fever, cough and breathing problems for the last 10 days, the civil surgeon said.

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.

The death toll from coronavirus outbreak in Italy has leaped by 793 to 4,825, officials say, an increase of 19.6% -- by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged.

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

At least 12 people are killed and several others injured as a human-haulier and a salt-laden truck collided head first on the Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar Highway.