Mohammad Al-Masum Molla

Self-isolation and social distancing are effective in slowing the spread of Covid-19. While staying home without any knowledge on exactly when the situation will improve, one can nurture a hobby and students can engage in extra-curricular activities with the aid of online materials.

While the authorities maintain that community transmission is happening only in clusters and that there is nothing to worry, experts say unless the government draws up a cluster containment strategy immediately, the situation will remain worrisome.

Dhaka city has been virtually paused. Streets are almost empty, shops shuttered, restaurants closed, families cloistered at home -- all attempted to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

Homes are supposed to be a safe space where people can relax. Unfortunately, people wind up bringing home the world and all its germs through exposed hands, shoes, clothing, and phones. This is all the more dangerous during the unfolding coronavirus pandemic.

Since the country went into shutdown, people have had to adapt themselves to spending days cooped up in their homes.

After the government suspended the Higher Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations on March 22 amid growing uncertainty over coronavirus, education officials recommend the examinees see an opportunity in the delay and prepare better.

As confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the country are on the rise, the government is expanding the intensive care unit (ICU) facilities outside the capital to treat the critical patients.

The number of confirmed cases is higher among people with no travel history than those who have come back from abroad, according to the country’s coronavirus tally,

Amid the countrywide lockdown to prevent the spread of coronavirus, millions are working from home while children are off school.

People over 60 are particularly vulnerable to severe or life-threatening symptoms if infected with coronavirus.

Gymnasiums are closed, exercising outside is restricted and self-isolating mandates are forcing people to make big changes to their workout routines.

The government should help private hospitals procure ventilators because there could be an acute shortage of the key device in the fight against coronavirus, Labaid Limited Managing Director AM Shamim said.

The countrywide school shutdown, enforced to curb further spread of the coronavirus, can be an ideal time for parents to teach their children morality, personal hygiene and share various tales, especially folk.

As the coronavirus situation intensifies, people are concerned about how to stay healthy.

People need to have strong mental connection with each other at this time of social distancing, said a noted physiatrist while talking about fighting coronavirus.

Inadequate intensive care facilities across the country remain a major concern in treating elderly Covid-19 patients who are deemed most vulnerable to the deadly virus, say experts and health officials.

After getting conditional release from jail, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has spent the first day in self quarantine and talking to relatives over Skype.

Deserted for the last 25 months, the house on Road no-79 in the capital’s Gulshan-2, was decked up yesterday as its tenant, BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia, came back after spending 776 days in jail.

More and severe floods are likely in Bangladesh and India due to climate change, says a UN study published on March 21.

Amid growing concern over the spread of the novel coronavirus, shop owners yesterday announced that they will keep all markets and shopping malls across the country shut for a week from Wednesday.