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Pakistan suspends all incoming int'l flights
05:55 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayPakistan government has suspended all international flights coming into Pakistan for two weeks. This includes all flight carriers, not just Pakistan International Airlines (PIA)...
Wasfia Nazreen infected with COVID-19
05:06 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayCountry’s celebrated mountaineer Wasfia Nazreen has been diagnosed with COVID-19 and living in quarantine in Los Angeles in the US...
WHO advises Bangladesh national emergency
04:47 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe World Health Organization has advised Bangladesh partial or full lockdown and national emergncy to fight against coronavirus, said Dhaka South City mayor Sayeed Khokan. He made the disclosure after a meeting with the representatives of WHO, and US communicable disease control and protection (SDCP) at his Banani residence on Saturday...
Bangkok shopping malls closed
04:29 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayThai authorities have ordered the closure of all shopping malls in the capital Bangkok after the country reported its largest daily increase in coronavirus infections on Saturday...
Decision in principle to defer HSC exam
04:04 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe inter-education board has decided in principle to defer Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations amid novel coronavirus pandemic...
Two oversees returnees sent to hospital from HSIA
03:29 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayTwo overseas returnees were sent to Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital on Saturday morning from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for having high body temperature...
Bangladeshi dies from coronavirus in Italy
03:18 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayA Bangladeshi expatriate died from coronavirus at a hospital in Milan, Italy on Friday night...
Bangladesh reports second coronavirus death
02:25 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayAnother person has died from the novel coronavirus, bringing the death toll to two, said Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik. Four people testive positive for COVID-19 in last 24 hours. With this, the number of affected people stood at 24, the minister said this in a press briefing on Saturday...
Don’t hoard anything; country has enough stock of everything: PM
02:08 PM, 21 Mar 2020 Saturday"Some people are scared… they’re procuring food items indiscriminately and piling up stocks at their homes…I want to say it clearly that we’ve no problem in food items," she said...
By-polls to 3 JS seats underway amid corona fear
02:02 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayAmid the fear of novel coronavirus infection, by-elections to three parliamentary constituencies -– Dhaka-10, Gaibandha-3 and Bagerhat-4 –- are underway on Saturday....
Italy's coronavirus deaths surge by 627 in a day
12:59 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials said on Friday, an increase of 18.4% - by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged a month ago...
24 UN staff test positive for COVID-19
12:32 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayAt least 24 UN staff members have so far tested positive for the novel coronavirus, UN Secretary-General's spokesman Stephane Dujarric has told reporters...
20 novel coronavirus vaccines in development: WHO
12:22 PM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayAbout 20 vaccines against the novel coronavirus are currently being developed worldwide, said Dr. Maria Van Kerkhove, the technical lead for WHO’s emergencies program...
Coronavirus claims 11,417 lives, infects 276,462
11:50 AM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe deadly virus spread to at least 185 countries and territories, killing some 11,417 people globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it...
Bangladesh suspends all passenger flights with 10 countries
11:39 AM, 21 Mar 2020 SaturdayBangladesh on Saturday cancelled all the international passenger flights until March 31 with 10 countries to be effective from 12 am on Sunday to restrict the spread of coronavirus in the country...
Coronavirus: National Zoo shut down until March 31
07:01 PM, 20 Mar 2020 FridayThe government has shut down the National Zoo in Dhaka to contain the spread of coronavirus which is ravaging the entire world...
California issues 'stay at home' order amid virus
05:39 PM, 20 Mar 2020 FridayCalifornia has issued a "stay at home" order to residents as it tries to stem the march of the coronavirus across the most populous US state...
Bangladesh confirms 3 more coronavirus cases
03:47 PM, 20 Mar 2020 FridayThree more people caught the novel coronavirus in Bangladesh, totalling the country's number of cases to 20...
Just 169 out of 8,868 foreign returnees in quarantine in Satkhira
03:34 PM, 20 Mar 2020 FridayA very few number of the people who have returned from abroad recently are in home quarantine in Bangladesh's southern district Satkhira. Officials concerned said they received a list of 8,868 overseas returnees in the district but most of them came before instructions about quarantine was made...
Malaysia-returnee sent to hospital from HSIA
02:39 PM, 20 Mar 2020 FridayA Malaysia-returnee who landed at Shahjalal International Airport on Thursday night with high body temperature was sent to a hospital from the airport...