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

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced a nationwide three weeks lockdown starting from Tuesday midnight. The entire country of 1.3 billion people will come under its purview

Opposition BNP Chairperson and former PM Begum Khaleda Zia has been released this afternoon, 25 months after she landed in jail in a graft case

Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina has announced a Tk 50 billion package for workers employed in the export industries to help factory owners cope with the impact of the coronavirus

One more person has tested positive for the coronavirus infection in Kathmandu two days after the second case was confirmed. This brings the Nepal tally for COVID-19 to three confirmed cases, THT Online said