Mobile courts fine at least 19 stores, including pharmacies, in Dhaka city, Savar, Narayanganj and Manikganj for selling products such as surgical masks, hand sanitisers and different medicines at prices higher than usual.

The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has asked all offices and educational institutions under its jurisdiction and people across the country to remain cautious to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The newly pandemic coronavirus, popularly known as Covid-19, usually takes five days on average to start showing symptoms in affected people, scientists have confirmed.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) supplies five new thermal scanners to international airports and ports across the country.

A 100-year-old Chinese man recovered from coronavirus and was discharged from the hospital on Saturday, according to state media reports, making him the oldest person to recover from the virus.

Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research (IEDCR) requests all overseas returnees to self-quarantine.

Banglalink has declared the IEDCR hotline numbers toll-free for its users to facilitate preventive measures against the spread of coronavirus in the country, a press release says.

Canada has recorded its first death from the new coronavirus, health officials in the westernmost province of British Columbia has announced.

Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte has put his entire country on lockdown to combat the coronavirus, banning all but the most important travel and putting the final kibosh on social gatherings after Italians failed to take previous warnings to heart amid skyrocketing infections.

Investors had begun 2020 in an optimistic frame of mind. After all, last year was one of the best for global stocks since the financial crisis.

A British national of Bangladeshi origin succumbs to coronavirus infection yesterday at a hospital in UK’s Manchester, the third death from the disease in the country.

The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) increases the hotline numbers to report any suspected cases of coronavirus to 12 from four, after three cases were confirmed in Bangladesh on Sunday.

Across the capital, several pharmacies and superstores have been facing a shortage of masks, antiseptic liquids and sanitisers since yesterday afternoon.

Bangladeshi expatriates who will not be able to return to Qatar on time after the end of their leaves have been asked to keep in contact with their respective employers.

Women seem to be less likely to die from coronavirus in comparison to men, and children seem to be less likely to die than other age groups, according to data published on coronavirus deaths and reports published on various news media.

A day after the first cases of coronavirus were detected in Bangladesh, Health Secretary Md Ashadul Islam has said the situation is not bad enough to close schools and colleges of the country.

Italy orders a virtual lockdown across much of its wealthy north, including the financial capital Milan, in a drastic new attempt to try to contain a outbreak of coronavirus that saw the number of deaths leap again sharply.

Four passengers, including a child and her mother, who landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Spain, Italy and Singapore, have been sent to hospital, airport sources say. Three of them, except the mother, are hospitalised with high fever

The High Court today asked the government to take necessary steps to stop price hike of masks, handwash and sanitisers, or storing them to make extra profits later.

Qatar has temporarily suspended entry for people from Bangladesh and 13 other countries as a preventive measure due to the spread of coronavirus worldwide.