After daylong drama about quarantining people retuning from Italy, the authorities last night allowed 142 of them to go home and asked them to be in self isolation.

In a significant move, Saarc leaders will hold a video conference today to chalk out a strong common strategy to fight COVID-19 in the region.

The World Health Organization yesterday warned that Europe was now the “epicentre” for the global coronavirus pandemic that has spread to more than 120 countries and killed more than 5,000 worldwide.

Countries around the world are taking various drastic measures to try to stop the rapid spread of the new coronavirus, known as COVID-19. But the steps and guidelines given by Bangladesh government so far for the educational institutions seem not only to be hilarious but also far from reality.

Bangladeshi expatriates in some European counties, especially in Italy, find themselves in a precarious situation amid the novel coronavirus outbreak, with many of them left with no jobs and stuck at home without adequate supply of daily essentials.

An elderly woman died early yesterday, hours after she “sustained injuries while trying to save her son from some attackers” in the capital’s Badda area.

The once vibrant Kaliganga river in Manikganj appears to be almost dead at places and local environmental activists blame illegal encroachment and absence of dredging for it.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife, Australia’s minister for home affairs and a Chelsea soccer player are among new cases of the coronavirus that has infected almost 1,35,000 people and killed more than 4,900 worldwide.

Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research is collecting blood samples from patients admitted to hospitals with respiratory problems caused by unknown germs.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday opened the country’s first expressway -- Jatrabari-Mawa-Patchchar-Bhanga -- to traffic.

Bangladeshi airlines and bus operators yesterday suspended regular passenger-carrying trips to India following India’s sweeping travel restriction on foreigners to combat the spread of the coronavirus.

Hours after granting permanent bail to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia in a defamation case, a High Court bench yesterday withdrew its verdict.

More and more countries, led by US, yesterday shut their borders over the coronavirus pandemic that has sparked unprecedented lockdowns, widespread panic and another financial market meltdown.

The coronavirus has spread to 116 countries and territories, with each implementing its own measures to contain the disease. The goal is to prevent the Covid-19 from becoming endemic in their populations. But it is a race against time and there is no one-size-fits-all solution. Here’s a look at some of the measures that the affected countries and regions have taken so far.

Noting that the government was making an all-out effort to fight coronavirus, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people to follow the instructions regarding prevention of the virus.

Despite growing concern over coronavirus, schools in the capital appear to be ill-prepared to contain any possible spread of the virus.

Bangladesh tied a bow on their sheer dominance over Zimbabwe when the home side completed a clean sweep over the visitors with a comprehensive nine-wicket win in the second and final T20I at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur yesterday.

Still bearing the trauma of her last dialysis, Marjia Rabbani Shoshi was speaking with a smile until the subject of the Organ Transplantation Act 1999 (amended in 2018) came up.

Measures taken by the IEDCR following the detection of three coronavirus cases have lately raised some concerns.

As part of efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus infections, the government is converting six hospitals in and around the capital into facilities for treating COVID-19 patients.