Taiwan's coronavirus response is among the best globally

On January 25, as the world was still waking up to the potential danger of the novel coronavirus spreading rapidly out of central China, ..

COVID-19 death toll passes 60,000 worldwide

The novel coronavirus pandemic killed over 60,000 people worldwide, nearly three quarters of them in Europe, since it emerged in China ..

BKMEA decides to keep factories shut, BGMEA urges factories not to reopen

Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association at about midnight on Saturday announced its decision to keep knitwear factories..

Coronavirus Crisis BNP asks government to adopt Tk 87,000cr package

Opposition BNP on Saturday proposed to the government to adopt a Tk 87,000 crore incentive package to tackle the economic crisis caused..

Validities of bails, injunctions extended

Chief justice Syed Mahmud Hossain issued an administrative order Saturday extending the validities of ad-interim bails and the time given..

Licences to be cancelled if private hospitals deny treatment: minister

Health minister Zahid Maleque on Saturday said the government would take stern action including scraping licences if the private hospitals and clinics..

In Panama, coronavirus lockdown means separating men and women

Panama is taking a new -- if somewhat unorthodox — measure to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus: separation of the sexes.

Sailors from aircraft carrier hit by coronavirus outbreak to quarantine in Guam hotels

Some of the sailors from the USS Theodore Roosevelt will be quarantined in hotel rooms in Guam as the number of coronavirus cases aboard the aircraft carrier approaches 100,..

Nation's top coronavirus expert Dr. Anthony Fauci forced to beef up security as death threats increase Kate BennettEvan Perez byline

Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country's top medical expert on the coronavirus pandemic and a member of President Donald Trump's coronavirus ..

WHO concerned as deaths double in a week

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that it was concerned about the recent ‘rapid escalation’ and global spread of the new coronavirus pandemic.