A Bangladeshi expatriate in Italy’s Milan has died after being tested positive for Covid-19, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

Popular mountaineer and social activist Wasfia Nazreen has tested positive for the coronavirus and is currently in quarantine, she claimed in a Facebook post today.

Bangladesh has suspended all international fights except on four routes -- UK, China, Hong Kong and Thailand -- from today [midnight] till March 31, following the global coronavirus outbreak.

Amid aspirants’ fears over coronavirus, the Bankers' Selection Committee Secretariat is taking viva voce for the post of ‘Assistant Executive Officer (AEO)’ of Janata Bank Limited.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak says that they would work to fix a business continuity plan through standard operating procedures to keep services running amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials say, an increase of 18.4% -- by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged.

The Cannes Film Festival, the world’s largest, was forced to postpone its latest edition in May due to the spread of the coronavirus, organisers of the annual event on the French Riviera said recently.

The Dhaka city dwellers continued to throng grocery stores, super shops and kitchen markets yesterday amid looming threat of coronavirus, causing a hike in prices of essential commodities.

More than 10,000 people have now died in coronavirus pandemic that has swept from China throughout the world, forcing the confinement of tens of millions in their homes.

The carelessness of the returnees from abroad over following self-quarantine rules is putting their family members and relatives at risk of contracting coronavirus, statistics show.

The government must scale up its efforts to trace and quarantine all the people who might have come in contact with the coronavirus patients to contain the spread of the virus, say experts.

Millions of people could die from the new coronavirus, particularly in poor countries, if it is allowed to spread unchecked, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned Thursday, appealing for a coordinated global response to the pandemic.

India cricket captain Virat Kohli and his actor wife Anushka Sharma on Friday issued a joint appeal for self-isolation to combat the dreaded COVID-19 pandemic, which has left the world in disarray.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces that her government will provide free food grains under the Public Distribution System for the next six months, which will benefit 7.5 crore people of the state to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

Sri Lanka imposes a nationwide weekend curfew as South Asian countries escalate efforts to check the spread of coronavirus across the densely populated region of 1.9 billion people.

Britain has asked 65,000 former nurses and doctors to return to work and will deploy final-year medical students to fight the coronavirus health crisis, the health ministry says.

California issues an unprecedented statewide “stay at home” order for its 40 million residents and Washington warns Americans to return home or stay abroad indefinitely, as the number of coronavirus deaths in the country hits 200.

Authorities at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport have started marking inbound passengers with stamps bearing the date till which they will have to stay under home quarantine.

As public transports and mass gatherings pose a high risk for Covid-19 transmission, the government will consider suspension of bus, train and launch services in the country if the coronavirus situation worsens, ministers say.

The United States sends Iran a blunt message: the spread of the coronavirus will not save it from US sanctions that are choking off its oil revenues and isolating its economy.