Saudi Arabia imposes a nationwide curfew starting after reporting a jump of almost a quarter in coronavirus cases, while the United Arab Emirates will suspend all passenger and transit flights to and from the country.

The medical officer, who treated a coronavirus patient at the capital’s Delta Medical College Hospital, has also tested positive for the virus.

As some people with more regularised jobs and businesses gradually begin to work from home or enter stay-home modes across the country, livelihoods of low-income people are being hit hard.

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.

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.

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

The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources instructs people to pay the bills for the months of February, March and April in May. The late fines will also be waived for the three months.

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.

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.

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).

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 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.