Local authorities have locked down five houses in Chowgachha upazila of Jashore after a teenager of the area was admitted to hospital with symptoms similar to that of coronavirus infection.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a video conference with govt officials of all 64 districts on Tuesday to coordinate the ongoing activities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has been given the permission to begin testing patients for COVID-19, alongside the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), icddr,b officials confirmed today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to provide food aid to people, who have lost their means of daily income, due to the ongoing 10-day shutdown.

Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, US President Donald Trump has extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public-health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding coronavirus pandemic.

Another person has tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 49, says IEDCR.

Local authorities of Hathazari upazila in Chattogram are sending appreciation letters to recently-returned expatriates in the area, who have completed their quarantine period as per government directives.

Joe Diffie, a Grammy award-winning country music singer who had several chart-topping hits in the 1990s, has died of coronavirus. He was 61.

Mainland China reports 31 new coronavirus cases, including one locally transmitted infection, the country’s National Health Commission said, dropping from 45 cases a day earlier.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he would remain in self-imposed isolation even though his wife, who had contracted the coronavirus, has recovered.

Bangladeshi expatriates in Qatar, whose identity cards have already expired or have been living there illegally due to other reasons during the coronavirus pandemic, can take free treatment at hospitals in the Gulf country.

Bangladeshi expatriate teachers and students in at least eight countries express concern over the rapid spread of coronavirus and call upon all people in the country to come together in fighting the pandemic.

Tokyo Olympics organisers are eyeing next July as a start date for the postponed Games, Japanese media reported Sunday, following the historic decision to delay the event due to the coronavirus.

The Shakib Al Hasan Foundation, an initiative of Bangladesh’s ace all-rounder, united with Mission Save Bangladesh -- a joint initiative of The Daily Star, Sheba.xyz, and Samakal and now Shakib’s foundation -- on Saturday to aid in the fight against coronavirus.

The government has started work on devising a method to allocate its Tk 5,000 crore stimulus package for the export-oriented sectors announced by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on March 25.

Mobile operators are receiving a barrage of questions from users after sending them text messages seeking information on their health condition as part of a government plan to draw a digital map to track coronavirus cases and detect potential risk zones.

The government and the Bangladesh Bank have come up with several initiatives in response to the evolving public health and economic crisis.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) yesterday distributed necessary food items among 1,000 poor families in the capital’s Tolarbagh and its adjoining slums in Mirpur.

Some members of a garment factory alliance have been producing biodegradable general-use masks from surplus fabrics to distribute among the poor for free.

At least 31,412 people have died worldwide from the coronavirus -- some 22,260 of those in Europe -- since the epidemic started