Dhaka: Bangladesh has confirmed the first coronavirus cases in the country, but the government has urged people not to panic and to consult physicians if they showed any symptoms of the disease, it was reported.

Two men and a woman, from the same family -- aged between 20 and 35 -- tested positive for the virus on Saturday, The Daily Star newspaper quoted Professor Meerjady Sabrina Flora, director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research (IEDCR), as saying on Sunday.

"Two of them returned to Bangladesh from Italy. The woman got infected from contact with one of them," Sabrina said.

"One had temperature of 99 degrees, one had fever and cough and another had only cough. No special treatment is needed for them. They are being given treatment according to their symptoms. They will be kept in isolation until they recover fully."

Three more Bangladeshis who came in contact with the patients have been quarantined -- two in a hospital and one at home.