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.

To support them and benefit the citizens, The Daily Star, Sheba.xyz and Samakal have launched an initiative, ‘Mission Save Bangladesh’, which aims to provide groceries to underprivileged communities, provide financial support for small businesses, and deliver community-based support.

Saarc health professionals agree to launch a website to share information, expertise and best practices to prevent spread of coronavirus.

The Indian High Commission in Bangladesh offers its clarification on a news article titled “India refuses entry to 70 citizens at Benapole check post for coronavirus lockdown” published by The Daily Star on its website on March 24.

More than 2,500 army personnel divided in 290 teams are discharging their duties in 61 districts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor-elect Atiqul Islam and BD Clean, a youth-based platform, have joined hands to distribute food among the poor and low-wage earners as public transport services have been suspended in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak.

A Bangladeshi healthcare company called Digital Healthcare Solutions has launched a coronavirus symptom check online and is available free of cost.

A citizen of Belarus working at the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant in Pabna has been sent to Dhaka for tests on suspicion of coronavirus infection.

More than three billion people around the world are living under lockdown as governments stepped up their efforts against the coronavirus pandemic which has left more than 21,000 people dead.

A special flight from China carrying medical equipment to help combat the spread of coronavirus lands at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport.

Government officials of Golapganj upazila in Sylhet have decided to donate their Baishakhi allowances in a bid to support the underprivileged local people during the coronavirus outbreak.

A total 364 Malaysia and Bhutan nationals stuck in Bangladesh returned to their countries through different flights between last night and this morning.

Five more people tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 44, according to the IEDCR.

A Bangladeshi doctor -- Misbahul Ferdous -- stationed at Fuwai Hospital in China, says the hospital received immediate help from a Bangladeshi cardiologist during their time of need, while tackling the coronavirus outbreak at its height in the country.

Local administration enforce isolation of three families -- comprising 12 members -- at a village in Basail upazila of Tangail as one of the families take shelter in the village after recently fleeing from the area in Dhaka’s Mirpur that is under lockdown.

A 65-year-old Kashmiri man who tested positive for Covid-19 has died in India’s Srinagar city.