Restrictions were imposed on movement in Tolarbagh of Mirpur after a neighbour of a deceased Covid-19 patient passed away yesterday evening, said local MP Aslamul Haque Aslam.

The government has suspended air communications with 10 countries from yesterday noon until March 31 as precautionary measure to stop the spread of coronavirus in the country.

The government needs to gather evidence-based data on the current Covid-19 situation immediately to understand the trend of the outbreak in the country, experts told a roundtable yesterday.

While the government still maintains grip on Covid-19 testing, some private hospitals feel they should be allowed to test patients for coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged all not to hoard food grain and other essential items out of panic as the country has enough stock of everything.

A second person died from coronavirus in the country and four others were tested positive for the virus, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Close to one billion people worldwide were confined to their homes yesterday as the global coronavirus death toll shot past 12,000 and US states rolled out lockdown measures already imposed across swathes of Europe.

More than 10,000 people have now died in coronavirus pandemic that has swept from China throughout the world, forcing the confinement of tens of millions in their homes.

The administration yesterday deployed around 250 policemen to ensure that no one enters or leaves four neighbourhoods in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila.

The carelessness of the returnees from abroad over following self-quarantine rules is putting their family members and relatives at risk of contracting coronavirus, statistics show.

The Forest Department is in fear of permanently losing around 16,000 acres of Sal forest in Mymensingh’s Bhaluka upazila as the land ministry recorded it as khas and private land.

The government must scale up its efforts to trace and quarantine all the people who might have come in contact with the coronavirus patients to contain the spread of the virus, say experts.

China yesterday recorded zero domestic infections for the first time since the outbreak emerged marking a major milestone in its battle against the coronavirus pandemic as deaths soared again in Europe.

The army has been called into action to contain the spread of coronavirus infection by people flying into the country.

The government is considering placing the most vulnerable areas on lockdown as part of its efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Bangladesh yesterday confirmed the first death from the novel coronavirus, the victim being a man in his early seventies, amid growing public anxiety over the government’s preparations to contain the spread of the virus.

Several hundred Bangladeshis are facing uncertainty over returning home from some Middle Eastern and European countries as they remain stranded there for days following suspension of flight operations, say officials of international carriers.

Dhaka -- Bangladesh’s densely populated capital -- keeps topping the list of cities with the worst air pollution. Concerns about health hazards due to polluted air have been raised before, but now the warning rings louder as global experts have opined that health

Hundreds of millions of people faced a world turned upside down yesterday by unprecedented emergency measures against the coronavirus pandemic that is killing the old and vulnerable and threatening prolonged economic misery.

Four doctors of Dhaka Medical College Hospital were sent to home quarantine yesterday after all four handled a coronavirus patient without any protective gear for over a week.