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On 16 March, Flora stated that an additional 3 COVID-19 patients had been detected in Bangladesh, including 2 children. [12] Also, the Education Ministry of Bangladesh announced that it will close all educational institutions until 31 March and Dhaka University from 18 March 2020 to 28 March 2020. [13] [14]
The first three known cases were reported on 8 March 2020 by the country's epidemiology institute, IEDCR. Since then, the pandemic has spread day by day over the whole nation and the number of affected people has been increasing. Bangladesh is the second most affected country in South Asia, after India. [4]
As of 29 March 2020, the Government of Bangladesh has confirmed testing 1095 samples among which there is a total of 48 confirmed cases, 15 recoveries, and 5 deaths in the country., [40] were confirmed to have spread to Bangladesh in March 2020. On 22 March, Bangladesh declared a 10-day shut down effective from March 26 to 4 April . [41]
Brunei's health ministry confirmed a first case of a local man who returned from Kuala Lumpur on 3 March. Symptoms began on 7 March and preliminary tests indicated the person was positive. [72] Canada recorded its first COVID-19-related death. [73] Cyprus confirmed its first two cases. [74]
This article documents the chronology of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, which originated in Wuhan, China in December 2019. Some developments may become known or fully understood only in retrospect. Reporting on this outbreak (later pandemic when it was upgraded on 11 March 2020) began in December 2019. [1] [2]
On 23 March 2020, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern raised New Zealand's COVID-19 alert level [254] to three and announced the closure of all schools beginning on that day, and two days later moved to four at 11:59 p.m. on 25 March 2020 – a nationwide lockdown. While all sporting matches and events as well as non-essential services such as pools ...
9 February – Bangladesh wins the 2020 Under-19 Cricket World Cup by defeating the defending champions India in the final. [ 3 ] 11 February – Fifteen Rohingya refugees died, and another 72 were rescued, when a trawler bound for Malaysia sank off of St. Martin's Island in the Bay of Bengal , leading to police to file charges against 19 ...
Beginning with the first lockdown in China's Hubei province [524] and nationwide in Italy in March 2020, lockdowns continued to be implemented in many countries throughout 2020 and 2021. On 24 March 2020, the entire 1.3 billion population of India was ordered to stay at home during its lockdown, making it the largest of the pandemic. [525]