Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

More than five lakh Covid-19 testing kits have been lying in the warehouses of several companies in the capital for the last couple of months.

Government data shows the reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus has declined over the past few weeks, but experts doubt it, saying the number of Covid-19 tests has been inadequate to come to such conclusions.

When the daily activities came to a halt during the shutdown across the country to prevent the spread of coronavirus, some initiatives from the Department of Livestock (DLS) saved farmers from financial distress.

The government has started using tuberculosis diagnosis machine -- GeneXpert -- to detect Covid-19, in a desperate attempt to ease the strain on its testing facilities with limited number of RT-PCR machines.

At least two people are testing positive for coronavirus every minute, and five are reported dead every three hours from the highly transmissible virus, according to government statistics released yesterday.

Resident medical officers of Dhaka’s Birdem General Hospital said the authorities cut their monthly salaries and other benefits although they were treating patients amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

With the country witnessing a continuous surge in Covid-19 infections and deaths, a shortage of testing kits appears to be a major setback for efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

No action against the supplier has been recommended following a government probe into the alleged supply of regular masks packaged as N95 ones to various hospitals.

Laxmipur lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam used to earn around two million dinars a year from his manpower business in Kuwait, investigators found.

Around 11:30pm on Tuesday, a volunteer guarding East Rajabazar received a phone call from a resident asking for some essentials -- half a kilogram of malta and four packets of oral saline.

With eyes full of hope, a group of Bangladeshis reached Kuwait about two years ago. They made it to the oil-rich Gulf country after spending everything they had.

Bangladesh has made great strides in power generation in the last decade as about 95 percent of its population now have the access to electricity, thanks to the government’s attention to renewable energy sources along with the conventional sources, says a global report.

Laxmipur lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam has caused an uproar in Kuwait by revealing that high-placed officials of that country used to take bribes from him.

There is no specific programme mentioned in the budget for the urban poor who have been hit the hardest during the shutdown of the economy for over two months.

With the novel coronavirus infections spreading across the country, critical patients outside the capital and divisional headquarters are increasingly becoming vulnerable due to ill-equipped district hospitals.

Rana Shikder, who flew from Singapore to Bangladesh with the help of doctors of Singapore, died yesterday at his home. Thirty-two-year old Rana was waiting for death as he was suffering from stomach cancer.

Bangladesh’s carbon emissions have dropped by 24 percent to 183,000 tonnes per day during the recent countrywide shutdown.

Tariqul Islam is one of the migrants who have miraculously survived a mass shooting by family members of a human trafficker in the Libyan desert town of Mizdah on Wednesday that claimed 30 lives, including 26 Bangladeshis.

Beximco Chairman Sohail F Rahman and former BNP leader M Morshed Khan along with their wives left for the UK on chartered planes amid coronavirus travel restrictions.

At 32, Rana Shikder is waiting for death, but he is content because he is at home.