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Saudi closes all mosques for prayers except two
10:34 AM, 18 Mar 2020 WednesdayThe Council of Senior Scholars in Saudi Arabia decided on Tuesday to suspend the daily congregational prayers and the weekly Friday prayer in all mosques across the Kingdom. The Grand Mosque in Makkah and the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah are exempted from this ruling...
Coronavirus hits all 50 US states as death rise
09:19 AM, 18 Mar 2020 WednesdayThe deadly coronavirus has now hit all 50 states in the US as West Virginia reported its first case of the infection on Tuesday...
Coronavirus death toll rises to 7,987
09:14 AM, 18 Mar 2020 WednesdayThe deadly epidemic, novel coronavirus, first emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year, and then spread to at least 165 countries and regions, killing 7,987 people globally...
People will stay awake with Bangabandhu’s ideology forever: PM
09:28 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday called upon the new generation to build themselves as worthy citizens by following Bangabandhu’s ideology, saying that the people of the country will stay awake with his ideology and uphold the flag given by him forever...
Spanish coronavirus deaths surge close to 500
07:44 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayDeaths from coronavirus in Spain surged to 491 on Tuesday from 309 the day before, health officials have said...
COVID-19 vaccine approved for clinical trial in China
07:07 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayChinese researchers got approval for a clinical trial of a recombinant COVID-19 vaccine on Monday...
Pakistan's coronavirus tally reaches 212
06:56 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayProvincial authorities on Tuesday confirmed 27 new cases of the novel coronavirus in Sindh and Punjab provinces of Pakistan, pushing the country’s tally of confirmed COVID-19 cases to 212...
417 stranded Bangladeshis return from Saudi Arabia
06:34 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayA total of 417 stranded Bangladeshis, including eight infants, arrived at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Saudi Arabia’s Jeddah by a special flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Tuesday afternoon...
Malaysia reports first coronavirus deaths
05:42 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayMalaysia reported its first two coronavirus deaths on Tuesday, including a man who attended a mass Muslim gathering linked to nearly two-thirds of the country’s infections...
Italy-returnee, family confined to their Bogura home
05:26 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayLocals have confined an Italy-returnee youth, who fled Ashkona Hajj Camp during his quarantine period, and his family, to their house at Uttar Chelopara in the district town on Tuesday amid growing fear about the deadly coronavirus outbreak...
'Avoid going to mosque with fever, sneeze, cough'
04:49 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayIslamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) has advised the returnees from abroad, people having coronavirus symptoms, and ones suffering from fever, sneeze and cough to avoid going to mosque to prevent spread of COVID-19...
Two more coronavirus patients detected: IEDCR
12:38 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayTwo more coronavirus cases have been detected in Bangladesh. Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora revealed the information at a regular press briefing on Tuesday. With these, so far 10 coronavirus cases have been detected in the country...
High temperature, humidity reduce coronavirus transmission: Study
12:18 PM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayHigh temperature and humidity can reduce the transmission of the novel coronavirus or COVID-19, which has so far affected 162 countries and territories including Bangladesh, according to a new study Chinese researchers...
Thailand reports 30 new coronavirus cases, total of 177, official says
11:55 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayThailand reported 30 new coronavirus cases on Tuesday, raising the total to 177, Sukhum Kanchanaphimai, permanent secretary of the Ministry of Public Health told a news conference...
Taj Mahal closed to visitors from today amid coronavirus fears
10:50 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayThe iconic Taj Mahal will be closed to visitors from today as part of measures to try and combat the coronavirus pandemic, the tourism ministry said on Monday...
Coronavirus: Philippines quarantines island of 57 million people
10:23 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayPresident Rodrigo Duterte placed the entire Philippine island of Luzon under an "enhanced community quarantine" until April 12 to stop the spread of coronavirus...
UK faces oxygen crisis as Johnson tells manufacturers to make ventilators
10:03 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayNHS hospitals could run out of oxygen within hours if hit by a wave of coronavirus patients, experts have warned as the UK's crisis rapidly worsens...
Coronavirus vaccine test opens with 1st doses
09:24 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayU.S. researchers gave the first shots in a first test of an experimental coronavirus vaccine Monday, leading off a worldwide hunt for protection even as the pandemic surges. With careful jabs in the arms of four healthy volunteers, scientists at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle began...
PM pays homage to Bangabandhu
08:47 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on the occasion of his birth centenary. The premier paid the homage by placing a wreath at the portrait of the Father of the Nation in front of Bangabandhu Memorial Museum at Dhanmondi in the capital...
Bangabandhu’s birth centenary today
08:29 AM, 17 Mar 2020 TuesdayThe yearlong birth centenary celebration of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur begins today at home and abroad in a befitting manner. Bangabandhu, the greatest Bangalee of all times, was born on March 17 in 1920 at Tungipara under the then Gopalganj subdivision in Faridpur district...