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The 74-year-old opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party chief is serving a 17-year prison term in two graft cases since February 8, 2018.

Two long-used malaria drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, have been bandied as being effective in the treatment of the coronavirus.

South Korea reported its lowest number of new cases on Monday since with the peak of 909 cases recorded on February 29.

G20 leaders are due to gather for an extraordinary virtual summit in coming days as the world races to contain the virus, which has infected 370,000 globally and killed over 16,000.

On March 18, less than 10 days later, Khan died at an isolation centre for coronavirus patients in the northwestern city of Mardan. He died from COVID-19, the day his test results came back positive.

Lawsuits had been filed against the site coronavirusmedicalkit.com, which claimed to sell vaccines for COVID-19, when in fact there is no such vaccine.

Martin Griffiths, the UN special envoy for Yemen, said in a plea, "At a time when the world is struggling to fight a pandemic, the focus of the parties must shift away from fighting one another to ensuring that the population will not face even graver ris...

The British government announced stronger measures to combat the Convid-19 spread, including the closing of bars, pubs and restaurants.

March 21 was proclaimed as the International Day of Forests by the United Nations General Assembly in the year 2012.

At 15,485, Spain has the second-highest active coronavirus cases globally followed by Germany at 14,387.

The rally was stopped days after Indonesia hosted a Muslim event in Malaysia from Feb. 27 to March 1 that later led to more than 500 coronavirus infections.

Bolsonaro says he has twice tested negative for the coronavirus, but 14 people in his entourage to Florida 10 days ago have tested positive. The fallout from the trip, in which he met US President Donald Trump, haunts him.

Total deaths in Italy have reached 2,978, more than half of all the cases recorded outside China, while the number of infections reached 35,713.

Australian PM declared a national 'human biosecurity emergency' and said the country should prepare for 'at least six months' of disruption to contain the virus.

The new coronavirus, which is predominantly transmitted by respiratory droplets, was detectable for up to two to three days on plastic and stainless steel, and for up to 24 hours on cardboard.

The Australian carrier announced plans to cut international capacity by 90% and domestic capacity by 60% until at least the end of May, grounding the equivalent of 150 planes in response to new travel restrictions.