Twenty staff members of ATN News, a private TV channel, have been sent on home-quarantine after one of their colleagues has tested positive for coronavirus.   The journalist of the television channel returned home from abroad on March 21 after attending a one-month training course there, said its Executive Editor Munni Saha.   He went to his residence straight from the airport and maintained a 15-day home-quarantine period, she said.   The reporter started suffering from fever four days after he rejoined office on April 5, Munni Saha said, adding that he later developed cough and body ache.   As he approached the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), they collected his samples from his home on April 10 and he was informed on Saturday night that he had tested positive for Covid-19, she said.   The ATN News executive director said the reporter is now receiving treatment staying in isolation at his home.   She also said they sent 20 staff members who came in contact with him on home-quarantine. 

Jashore’s district administration sent another 555 overseas returnees to home quarantine in the last 24 hours until Monday night to prevent the spread of coronavirus.   Among them, 414 returnees are from the Sadar upazila alone, said Deputy Civil Surgeon Dr Protiva Gharai.   So far, 1,108 overseas returnees have been home quarantined since March 10 in the district, she said, adding that 676 of them are in the sadar upazila.   Jashore Civil Surgeon Dr Sheikh Abu Shahin said nobody from the district has so far tested positive for coronavirus.   “The people in quarantine are under our supervision. They have our contact numbers, and we have theirs. Health workers are collecting information from them twice a day,” he said.   Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Md Kamruzzaman said they have been putting red flag at houses of overseas returnees in the upazila.   Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Shafiul Arif on Saturday said 23,000 people have returned home from abroad in the last one month.   Committees have been formed at ward level with members of union parishads. "Llegal action will be taken if anyone disobeys the rules of home quarantine," he said.      

A woman, who returned from London 13 days ago, was admitted to a Sylhet government hospital on Monday night and kept in quarantine.

The cruise ship forced to idle for days off the California coast because of a cluster of coronavirus cases aboard arrived in port Monday, and dozen of passengers began to leave for military bases where they would be quarantined or to return to their home countries.

New Zealand confirmed the second case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, which was another imported case after the country's first case was confirmed last week.

Dozens of U.S. passengers who were moved to a Texas air base after potentially being exposed to the coronavirus on a cruise ship were released Tuesday and allowed to go home, a day after local leaders declared a public health emergency and sought to delay the process so that more patient testing could be done.

More than 300 American cruise ship passengers, including 14 who tested positive for coronavirus, were being quarantined at military bases in California and Texas on Monday after arriving from Japan on charter flights overnight.

China reported a rise in new virus cases Monday, denting optimism that disease control measures including isolating major cities might be working, while the operator of a cruise ship in Japan reported dozens of new cases.

Japan on Friday reported 41 new cases of a virus on a quarantined cruise ship and turned away another luxury liner while the death toll in mainland China rose to 636, including a doctor who got in trouble with authorities in the communist country for sounding an early warning about the disease threat.