Industry and Commerce Minister Ajmal Ahmadi has said commercial ports between Afghanistan and Uzbekistan would stay open

The Ministry of Public Health in Afghanistan has confirmed second virus-related fatality and over 80 coronavirus cases in Afghanistan so far

Bangladesh is set to celebrate the 49th anniversary of independence from Pakistan with restrictions on gatherings due to a coronavirus pandemic

The prices of essentials, including rice, vegetables, cooking oil, spices, and cleaning items, have increased several folds over the last one week

The Nepalese government has decided to facilitate the foreign nationals stranded in Nepal due to the travel restriction enforced by the government to contain the Coronavirus (Covid-19) to return to their countries

Health professionals in Nepal, especially doctors and nurses, who are on the frontline of the fight against COVID-19, are ill-equipped to treat coronavirus patients, as they don’t have adequate number of personal protective equipment

The  Nepalese government is not revealing the details of coronavirus patients’ localities out of privacy concerns

Pakistan President Arif Alvi has urged religious scholars to take urgent action to halt congregational prayers in the country as a preventive measure againt the spread of the novel coronavirus

Pakistan has arranged about $4 billion additional financial assistance from multilateral lending and aid agencies to shore up foreign exchange reserves and budgetary support for fighting adverse impacts of the coronavirus pandemic

Sri Lanka recorded the first zero new coronavirus case day on March 25, as the country was engaged in an intense battle to bottle the Covid-19 bug, and curfew was tightened to combat the possibility of small clusters in the Western Province of the island

Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering has said that Bhutanese need not panic with neighboring countries going for a complete lockdown

Sri Lanka’s Colombo airport is serving daily and weekly flights facilitating international transit passengers and export-import cargo of the last remaining global hubs amid a Coronavirus pandemic as airports are closed, transit is banned and carriers grounded across the world

Washington-based World Bank has together with the International Monetary Fund asked creditor countries to suspend debt repayments of poor countries that were classed as eligible to receive loans from its concessionary window as a coronavirus outbreak hit the world

Air India will repatriate over 300 Israeli nationals via a special flight

Bangladesh has confirmed one more death from coronavirus infections, taking the total to five, according to the government’s disease control agency