The death toll from China's coronavirus outbreak has soared to 722 as Hong Kong imposed a mandatory quarantine on mainland arrivals to block the spread of an epidemic that has caused global panic.

Health authorities have issued the highest alert at Benapole land port in Jashore to detect patients infected with Coronavirus.

Opposition Jatiya Party MP Mujibul Haque in Parliament demands that the government investigates the allegations of negligence in screening inbound passengers at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, amid the Coronavirus scare.

Just two weeks ago, Ahmed Pharmacy, a small medicine store at Farmgate, had less than five customers looking for masks. But in the past week, the number of people buying masks has almost quadrupled, as panic around coronavirus spreads. The pharmacy is almost out of disposable surgical and N95 masks.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming suggests all to remain alert but not to create any panic, saying that no Chinese national here and no Bangladesh national in China is infected with coronavirus.

A newborn baby in China has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus just 30 hours after birth, the youngest case recorded so far, state media said.

China has scrambled to find bed space for thousands of newly infected patients, as the toll from a deadly new virus jumped again.

The world has a “window of opportunity” to halt the spread of coronavirus, global health experts said, as the number of people infected in China jumped to 25,000 and millions more were ordered to stay indoors.

Indian authorities have set up coronavirus screening and testing centres along the borders with Bangladesh and Myanmar, officials say.

The prices of most everyday commodities including onion, ginger and garlic have risen at the country's largest wholesale market at Chattogram's Khatunganj, largely due to the spread of coronavirus in China.

Fatalities from the coronavirus epidemic are overwhelmingly concentrated in central China’s Wuhan city, which accounts for over 73 percent of deaths despite having only one-third the number of confirmed infections.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader has said the construction of Padma Bridge will be affected if the coronavirus situation does not improve within the next two months.

The death toll from a coronavirus outbreak in China has passed 490 as two US airlines suspended flights to Hong Kong following the first fatality there and 10 cases were confirmed on a quarantined Japanese cruise ship.

A plane carrying passengers from the Chinese city of Kunming landed at the capital’s Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 2:15pm yesterday. An aircraft of Turkish Airlines arrived from Istanbul around the same time.

China has agreed to allow US health experts into the country as part of a World Health Organization (WHO) effort to help fight the fast-spreading coronavirus, as the number of cases and deaths continued to mount.

Bangladesh has advised all airlines that fly between the country and China to make health clearance mandatory from the government health administration of the latter while carrying passengers from China with valid visa.

Hong Kong reports its first coronavirus death, a 39-year-old male who had been suffering from an underlying illness and had visited China's Wuhan city in January, hospital staff says, marking the second death outside mainland China.

China's top leadership has admitted "shortcomings and difficulties" in its response to the coronavirus outbreak, as state media said a new hospital built at breakneck pace began receiving patients in the epicentre of the crisis.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says Bangladeshis in China will have to make their own arrangements to return home and no aircraft will be sent to bring them back.

None of the eight hospitalised Bangladeshis, who were brought to Dhaka from China on a special flight, have Coronavirus, according to tests by the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR).