The Chinese province at the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak reports a record rise in the death toll under a new method for diagnosing cases, as health experts warned the epidemic could get worse before it gets better.

Seventeen Chinese sailors, who were stuck in a ship docked at Sitakunda coast for five days, are set to return to their country tonight on a flight departing from Shah Amanat International Airport in the capital, reports our Chattogram correspondent.

China reports its lowest number of new coronavirus cases since late January, lending weight to a prediction by its senior medical adviser that the outbreak could end by April.

Two more people in Singapore, including another Bangladeshi worker, have been infected with coronavirus, The Straits Times reports.

The World Health Organization (WHO) urges global unity to prevent “far more cases and far higher costs” from coronavirus disease -- now officially named COVID-19.

Around two-thirds of the world population could be affected by the coronavirus if it cannot be contained, Hong Kong’s leading public health epidemiologist said today, according to a report by The Guardian.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen expresses deep condolences for the loss of lives due to the coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan city and other places in China.

The death toll from the coronavirus outbreak in mainland China passes 1,000 people, health authorities announces.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says around 90,245 people were screened at airports, river, sea and land ports of the country as of February 10 in the wake of coronavirus outbreak in China.

Apple supplier Foxconn (2317.TW) got approval to resume production at a key China plant after being forced to shut it following a coronavirus outbreak, but only 10% of the factory’s workforce has managed to return so far, a source tells Reuters.

Testing aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship in Japan reveals 60 more confirmed cases of coronavirus as quarantined passengers take to social media to warn of depression setting in over their confinement.

A student who returned from China and later got admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital with respiratory problems has tested negative for coronavirus.

Mainland China has reported another rise in cases of the new virus after a sharp decline the previous day, while the number of deaths grow by 97 to 908, with at least two more outside the country.

A Bangladeshi worker and a 71-year-old grandfather are among three new coronavirus cases confirmed in Singapore, says the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Singapore.

The office of the civil surgeons in Jashore is yet to start screening inbound train passengers from India, a country with confirmed coronavirus cases, at Benapole land port.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus surged past 800 in mainland China today, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be "stabilising".

Foreigners who have travelled to China on January 15 and after will be barred from entering India by land, air and sea routes in a bid to control the spread of coronavirus.

The death toll from the novel coronavirus has surged past 800 in mainland China, overtaking global fatalities in the 2002-03 SARS epidemic, even as the World Health Organization said the outbreak appeared to be "stabilising".

Not only those coming from China, but all passengers will be screened at the airports from now on, Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) has stated.

A 60-year old US citizen diagnosed with coronavirus died at Jinyintan Hospital in China’s Wuhan, a US embassy spokesman in Beijing says, in what appeared to be the first death of an American from the outbreak.