Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says China will provide Bangladesh with coronavirus testing kits, personal protection equipment (PPE), and other medical equipment as gift to Bangladesh on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day.

Global airlines urge governments to speed up bailouts to rescue the air transport industry as they doubled their estimate of 2020 revenue losses from the coronavirus crisis to more than $250 billion.

A woman has been beaten up by family members of a UAE returnee in Noakhali's Companiganj upazila as she allegedly informed police that the returnee was violating home quarantine.

Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) will go to people’s homes to recharge electricity meters if stores with point of sales are closed during the upcoming days.

Department of Livestock Services (DLS) provides 1,155 sets of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for doctors and healthcare providers in Sylhet division.

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).

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.

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.

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.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres calls for a global ceasefire so the world can focus on fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Sheba.xyz, The Daily Star and Samakal have jointly started a fund for the underprivileged and those who are deemed most at risk from the coronavirus.

Four members of a Rohingya family are quarantined after they arrived in Leda Camp (No 24) in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila.

The university authority enforces a lockdown in Buet's Dhakeshwari teachers' quarters as a coronavirus case was confirmed there.

Detectives arrest a man in Chandpur for allegedly spreading a rumour about the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in the country.