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

South Africa on Friday reported its first two deaths from the novel coronavirus outbreak as the number of confirmed cases breached the 1,000 mark, the government says.

The United States takes the grim title of the country with the most coronavirus infections and reports a record surge in unemployment as world leaders vow $5 trillion to stave off global economic collapse.

Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila administration has put Katakhali village under Dathia Bamongram union under lockdown on Thursday night, due to the rush of returnees from different districts -- mostly from Madaripur -- over the last couple of days.

Indian Health Ministry officials maintain there has been no solid evidence of community transmission of COVID-19 in the country as of yet and the infection appeared to be relatively stabilising considering the rate at which it was increasing, reports our New Delhi correspondent.

The machine for Polymerase Chain Reaction testing, known as PCR, has reached the laboratory of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday evening and will be used for detection of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

Uzbekistan locks down more cities and districts, and announces large bonus payments for medical workers, in its effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, as it reports the country's first death and the number of cases climbed to 83.

Four more people tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 48, says IEDCR.

The United States will likely see another cycle of the coronavirus sometime after the current outbreak has ended, but entire cities will not be need to be closed down again because of what is being learned now, the government's top infectious diseases expert says.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has grown by 662 to 8,165, the Civil Protection Agency says.

With the global Covid-19 crisis quickly escalating, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has had to accept a hard truth, rightly taking

After washing my hands for the eleventh time today, I am still not completely sure whether I touched something contaminated—the metal tap, the metal doorknob, the metal part of my pen.

The ongoing spread of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that originated in Wuhan, China, has caused more than 400,000 confirmed cases and more than 19,000 deaths across 172 countries.

The transmission channels through which the emergent global scenario in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic are impacting the increasingly globalising economy of Bangladesh are diverse: export outflows are getting disrupted; import inflows are facing delays;

Global food security concerns are mounting with around a fifth of the world’s population already under lockdown to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 470,000 people across 200 countries, killing 21,000.

Amidst the Covid-19 outbreak, most offices have already gone into a work-from-home process. The younger, tech-savvy crowd is all for it because most are already using apps like Slack, Basecamp and even the humble Facebook Messenger to communicate.

The Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday said its members can consider shutting factories to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.

The roads are empty. People are hunkering down at home and not coming out other than for essential needs at the kitchen markets, supershops, and pharmacies.

Inadequate intensive care facilities across the country remain a major concern in treating elderly Covid-19 patients who are deemed most vulnerable to the deadly virus, say experts and health officials.

It was truly unprecedented for the Dhaka dwellers. On the first day a 10-day shutdown, imposed to slow the spread of coronavirus, they woke up yesterday to a city that they never had seen before.