London would be ready to host the 2020 Olympics if the outbreak of the coronavirus forced the Games to be moved from Tokyo, Shaun Bailey, the Conservative candidate for mayor of the British capital, says.

China has reported a big drop in new coronavirus cases, fuelling hopes the epidemic is nearing its peak, but Japan faced a growing crisis as two passengers from a quarantined cruise ship died.

One of the Bangladeshis infected with coronavirus or Covid-19 in Singapore is now in “very critical state” and is not responding to the medicine given to him, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has said.

Hundreds of relieved passengers have disembarked a coronavirus-stricken cruise ship in Japan after testing negative for the disease that has now claimed more than 2,000 lives in China and spread panic worldwide.

Banking giant HSBC today axed 35,000 jobs, far more than expected, and posted slumping annual profits and warned over the financial impact of the deadly coronavirus.

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Japan is aiming to start trials soon using an HIV treatment for the coronavirus, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga has said.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ji Liming has advised not to bring back 172 Bangladeshi students in China’s Hubei Province as there is a risk of spreading coronavirus.

The number of reported new cases of coronavirus in China’s Hubei province rises after two days of falls, as authorities imposed tough new restrictions on movement to prevent the spread of the disease which has now killed more than 1,700 people.

A 24-year-old Thai man is thought to be the first victim of a hate crime linked to coronavirus in England, The Guardian reported today.

The number of new cases of a coronavirus in China fell slightly on Sunday, more than three weeks after the outbreak’s epicenter was locked down, and a Chinese tourist died from the virus in France, the first fatality in Europe.

The corona-virus, which has already killed hundreds of people in China and is now making its way across the globe, will inevitably cause significant disruption to apparel supply chains during 2020. The question is, to what extent, for how long, and how will Bangladesh be impacted?

Coronavirus is the latest topic globally and people are becoming scared day by day. It indeed is a matter of concern, but you do not have to be scared about it so much.

One more Bangladeshi national in Singapore has been infected with the novel coronavirus, Singapore’s Ministry of Health says.

The United States says it will send an aircraft to Japan to bring back US passengers on the quarantined cruise ship Diamond Princess, where the most coronavirus infections outside China have occurred.

An elderly Chinese tourist hospitalised in France has died of the coronavirus, becoming the first fatality in Europe, French Health Minister Agnes Buzyn said today.

The new coronavirus has infected 1,700 Chinese health workers and killed six, authorities said yesterday, as businesses struggled to balance containment measures with a return from an extended post-holiday break.

Two more Bangladeshi expatriate workers in Singapore have been infected with the novel coronavirus— recently named Covid-19—with links to the previous two cases being confirmed, The Straits Times reports.

On Wednesday, GSM Association (GSMA), the London based industry organisation that represents the global mobile industry, pulled the plug on the 2020 Mobile World Congress show. The show's organiser said the coronavirus, the virus infecting tens of thousands of people globally and originating from China, had made it "impossible" for the show to proceed.

A cruise ship that spent two weeks at sea after being turned away by five countries over fears that someone aboard might have the coronavirus arrived in Cambodia on Thursday, to the relief of passengers and praise from global health officials.