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Uzbekistan confirms first coronavirus case
05:58 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayAn Uzbek citizen has tested positive for coronavirus after returning from France, Uzbekistan's Healthcare Ministry said on Sunday, marking the first infection from the virus in the Central Asian country of 34 million...
SAU halts exams, bans gatherings over coronavirus
05:30 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundaySher-e-Bangla Agriculture University (SAU) authorities have decided to suspend all sorts of examinations of the institution to prevent the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Police admit forcing Muslim woman to remove hijab was wrong
04:30 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayAsiyah, born in London, said that being told to remove her hijab by the two male officers present was like being told to get naked.
2,314 people currently in home quarantine: IEDCR
02:34 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayAcross Bangladesh, 2,314 people are currently in home-quarantine as part of a countrywide effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus or COVID-19. "All of them are from abroad ... so far, there has been no case of local transmission," IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said Sunday...
First 3 coronavirus patients discharged: IEDCR
01:44 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayThe first three coronavirus patients detected in Bangladesh have recovered fully and been discharged, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) announced Sunday. IEDCR Director Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora made the disclosure at a regular media briefing in Dhaka on Sunday...
Hindu priest murder: 4 JMB militants get death
01:22 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayA Rajshahi court today sentenced four members of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to death for the murder of a Hindu priest, Jaggeshwar Roy, in Panchagarh in 2016. Rajshahi Speedy Trial Tribunal Anup Kumar Roy passed the order around 11am...
Coronavirus outbreak: 152 Bangladeshis return from Italy
12:41 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayAnother batch of 152 Bangladeshis returned home from Italy on Sunday morning. They arrived on a flight of Emirates Airlines and were sent to the hajj camp quarantine from the airport, said doctor Shahriar Sajjad, in-charge of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport medical team...
Kurigram journo gets bail in drug case
12:22 PM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayA district court today granted bail to Kurigram journalist Ariful Islam Rigan in a drug case. Additional District Magistrate Mohammad Sujauddaula passed the order upon Tk25,000 bail bond. Earlier on Friday midnight, a mobile court sentenced Ariful Islam, a district correspondent of online news portal Bangla Tribune...
Coronavirus: Australia to impose self-isolation on all int’l arrivals
11:18 AM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayAustralia’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison said all people arriving from overseas will have to self isolate for 14 days, as his government grapples with the spread of the coronavirus. The order will come into force at midnight, Morrison said in a televised address on Sunday (March 15)...
Lebanon ‘to declare state of medical emergency’ over coronavirus
09:55 AM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayLebanon will announce a "state of medical emergency" on Sunday, shutting down all public and private institutions except hospitals, pharmacies and bakeries in an effort to contain a coronavirus outbreak, a presidential palace source said...
Spain PM’s wife tests positive for coronavirus
09:19 AM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayBegona Gomez, the wife of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, has tested positive for the coronavirus, the Prime Minister's Office confirmed late on Saturday night...
Trump tests negative for coronavirus, extends travel ban to UK, Ireland
08:37 AM, 15 Mar 2020 SundayDonald Trump tested negative for the coronavirus, his doctor said on Saturday, as the U.S. president extended a travel ban to Britain and Ireland to try to slow the spread of a pandemic...
2 new Coronavirus patients detected in Bangladesh
10:03 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayTwo new coronavirus-infected patients have been detected in Bangladesh. Health Minister Zahid Maleque disclosed the information at a press briefing on Saturday night...
First human trials of Coronavirus vaccine to begin within days
09:41 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe first human trials of a coronavirus vaccine are to be launched within days, scientists in the US have said. The 'genetic hack' was accelerated past the animal testing stage and will be used on healthy volunteers, then patients if it deemed safe...
Spain to impose nationwide lockdown
08:08 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe Spanish government will put the country under lockdown from Monday as part of state of emergency measures to combat the coronavirus, a draft of an official decree obtained by Reuters showed...
Five killed in Bagerhat bus-truck collision
07:02 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayFive people were killed and 12 others injured after a bus collided head on with a rod-laden truck on Khulna-Mawa highway in Kakdanga area in Fakirhat upazila. Among the deceased, one was identified as Rafiza, a 4-month old girl, while the identities of three men and another woman could not be known yet...
India declares coronavirus a “notified disaster”
05:29 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayThe government has declared the novel coronavirus outbreak in the country a "notified disaster", in a move it has called "a special one-time dispensation", in order to provide compensation and aid to infected people...
Saudi suspends int’l flights for 2 weeks over coronavirus fears
04:55 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdaySaudi Arabia has suspended all international flights for two weeks, starting Sunday, to prevent the spread of coronavirus, state news agency SPA said on Saturday, citing an official source at interior ministry...
Coronavirus: Mass gatherings could be banned in UK from next week
03:40 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayMass gatherings could be banned in the UK from as early as next weekend amid the outbreak of coronavirus...
Mirpur Jhut Patti catches massive fire
02:41 PM, 14 Mar 2020 SaturdayA massive fire broke out at Jhut Patti in city's Mirpur-10 on Saturday afternoon...