Today is the sixth death anniversary of Faiz Mohammed, a former project manager of Augmedix.

To prevent price hikes due to increased demand for essential goods surrounding the coronavirus, mobile courts yesterday fined 68 traders and business organisations across three districts, report our correspondents.

Six people were killed and 12 others were injured in separate road accidents across the country yesterday, report our correspondents and two news agencies.

Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud yesterday urged all to stand by people shunning political differences to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country.

A Mymensingh court yesterday sent a youth to jail after arresting him in the capital on Thursday in connection with abducting a schoolgirl.

Amid fear of coronavirus spread, teachers in port city yesterday started participating in a training session to discharge duties at polling centres as presiding, assistant presiding and polling officers for the upcoming Chattogram City Corporation polls.

A fishing cat gave birth to two kittens at the zoo of Bangladesh Bonyo Prani Sheba Foundation in Moulvibazar’s Sreemangal upazila yesterday morning.

With an aim to aware people on how to help prevent the spread of coronavirus, government officials in Rajshahi launched a campaign yesterday.

Authorities of Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram are waiting for the decision of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh regarding closing the airport for all international flights until further notice in order to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Rapid Action Battalion arrest three suspected Ansar-Al-Islam members, who used to look after the finances of the banned militant outfit, from Dhaka and Sylhet in the last two days, the elite force says.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) forms a committee to fight and prevent the spread of coronavirus in the area of Dhaka under its purview.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has temporarily suspended its flights on Bangkok route.

The government has announced the closure of National Zoo located in Dhaka’s Mirpur area from today to March 31 to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrests an alleged woman leader of “Neo JMB” from Dhaka.

Divisional directors of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), district civil surgeons and upazila health and family planning officers can take legal actions through running mobile courts to tackle the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19).

A 19-year-old youth is stabbed to death by unidentified criminals in Dhaka’s Banani area.

The government authorises the Bangladesh army to run two quarantine centres in Dhaka in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Asking owners of hotels, clubs and community centres not to take any reservation, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) yesterday imposed a ban on social gatherings until further notice to prevent the risk of spreading coronavirus.

Although doctors, nurses and health workers at port city hospitals are ready to provide treatment to coronavirus-infected persons, the healthcare centres are not yet well equipped to handle such patients.

Relatives, activists and supporters of councillor candidates contesting in Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) election have been participating in campaigns, defying instruction of home quarantine imposed by government in a bid to contain a possible coronavirus outbreak in the country.