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Air Quality Index: Dhaka ranks 5th worst
Bangladesh’s capital Dhaka ranked fifth worst in the Air Quality Index (AQI) on Wednesday morning.
WHO says novel coronavirus not pandemic, fighting misinformation crucial
The World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday that the novel coronavirus epidemic has not become a pandemic but an outbreak with multiple foresides, and that fighting against the "epidemic of information," rumors or false information, is crucial.
Britain urges citizens to leave mainland China
British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has urged all British citizens in China to leave because of the outbreak of the new virus.
Court trial goes online in China amid virus outbreak
A court trial went online in east China's Shandong Province amid the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in China.
Belgium confirms its 1st case of virus
Belgium has reported its first case of a new virus in a person who was repatriated from the Chinese epicenter of the outbreak.
Another China-returnee hospitalised with fever: IEDCR
Another Bangladeshi national who along with 311 others returned home from China and kept at the quarantine unit at Ashkona Hajj Camp was shifted to Kurmitola General Hospital on Sunday night after his temperature was found high.
WHO working with Google to combat virus misinformation
The World Health Organization is working with Google to ensure that people get facts from WHO first when they search for information about the new virus that recently emerged in China.
Scientists say virus may have come from bats
Chinese scientists say they have more evidence that the new virus that recently emerged in China likely originated in bats. In two papers published Monday in the journal Nature, scientists report that genome sequences from several patients in Wuhan show the virus is closely related to the viruses that cause Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS.
China's Israel envoy compares virus travel bans to Holocaust
China's acting ambassador to Israel apologized on Sunday after comparing the closure of several national borders to Chinese citizens amid fears of a new virus from China to the turning away of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.
Europeans flee China, France urges help for poor nations
A second French-chartered airliner carrying 300 evacuees from China flew to Europe on Sunday as more foreigners fled the rapidly spreading new virus.