Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces creation of the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund with voluntary contributions from all.

A manufacturer at the Chattogram Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) -- Smart Jacket (BD) Limited -- has received a working order for 50,000 more sets of surgical jackets from the Ministry of Health.

The government has extended suspension of all passenger flights to and from 10 countries till April 7.

Angry workers of a Chinese company at Ishwardi EPZ besiege the factory and stage demonstration demanding the owners shut it down and allow leave for the workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Chinese embassy today confirmed that none of the 40,500 test kits sent to Bangladesh are from Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology -- the company which was under question by the Spanish government on Thursday for supplying “faulty” kits.

A youth and an 80-year-old woman have been admitted at the Corona Isolation Centre at Sylhet Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital with coronavirus-like symptoms.

A 45-year-old-man, suffering from a cold, cough and fever, dies allegedly after receiving no treatment in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) imposes the highest alert at different areas along the Bangladesh-India border in Jashore’s Benapole to prevent suspected coronavirus-infected people from trespassing into Bangladesh side.

The suburb of Jackson Heights is known to have one the largest Bangladeshi populations in the United States. The local mosque, called the Jackson Heights Islamic Center, is a focal point for many in the community, especially for a large number of taxi drivers. It has now become a support centre helping allay fears around the novel coronavirus.

A US-based lab unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has Covid-19 in as little as five minutes, it says in a statement.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $300,000 emergency grant yesterday to support the Bangladesh government’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Four more people who had tested positive with coronavirus, have fully recovered, taking the recovery number to 15 so far, IEDCR said today.

At least 10 Bangladeshis died in New York till Friday as coronavirus cases surge in the United States, according to local journalists.

President Donald Trump signs $2 trillion rescue plan to salvage a US economy crippled by the novel coronavirus, on a day the nation recorded more than 100,000 confirmed cases of virus infections.

The United States now has nearly 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and there have been 1,475 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.

Italy records 919 deaths from coronavirus in a single day, the highest daily toll anywhere in the world, while the number of confirmed cases eclipses the total in China where the virus first emerged.

Asad Haider, a resident of port city’s Rahattar Pool area, has been suffering from peptic ulcer for a long time. He was prescribed medicines for three months. One of the medicine he has to take is Sergel (Esomeprazole 20mg).

Days before the nation started to panic over the crisis of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical professionals and sufficient resources for infected patients, a private medical college hospital in Sylhet was prepared.

A large number of foreigners are leaving Bangladesh as the government has put the country on a 10-day shutdown since Thursday to prevent contagious spread of coronavirus.

The government yesterday said the factories making protective equipment against coronavirus or working on previous orders can remain open.