Members of Kotwali police under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) starts home delivery of medicines to ensure city dwellers get their medicines at fair prices and do not have to get out of the house.

Giving low doses of the generic steroid drug dexamethasone to patients admitted to hospital with Covid-19 reduced death rates by around a third among those with the most severe cases of infection, shows trial data.

Mukabbir Khan, member of the parliament from Sylhet-2 constituency, who is admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka yesterday tested positive for coronavirus.

The world is grappling to fight and overcome the coronavirus outbreak. But there is still no effective treatment or vaccine. The World Health Organization (WHO) has emphasised on social distancing and self-isolation as an effective way to control the outbreak. And these measures of social distancing and lockdown have been implemented in all countries affected by coronavirus.

The government files an appeal with the Supreme Court seeking stay on the High Court order asking authorities concerned to ensure that no government or private hospital in the country refuses treatment to any patient -- infected with Covid-19 or not.

Fifty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Thirteen judges and 26 staff members of lower courts across the country have tested positive for coronavirus till today.

Delhi Health Minister Satyander Jain tweets that he has been hospitalised with complaints of high fever and breathlessness and will undergo a test for coronavirus.

Former Director of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital Prof Dr Mujibur Rahman has died from coronavirus at the intensive care unit of Combined Military Hospital.

The government yesterday extended all educational institutions closure until August 6 as a preventive measure against the further spread of the novel coronavirus.

Here is some good news for healthcare professionals on the frontline against Covid-19.

Absence of proper planning and coordination in the government’s coronavirus response has resulted in a disastrous situation, said a study by the Transparency International Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she would not accept defeat against an invisible force like the novel coronavirus fearing death.

With over three thousand new infections in a single day, the total number of Covid-19 cases crossed the 90,000-mark yesterday -- the 100th day since the outbreak began in the country.

There was confusion all around. As the news of the government preparing a list of virus hotspots to be categorised as red zones spread, the city residents got puzzled and panicked.

“Gulf countries are highly dependent on migrant workers in almost every major sector…and yet they have utterly failed to protect migrant workers, and treat them with the dignity and respect they deserve”—these words were spoken by a representative of Amnesty International while highlighting the plight of migrant workers during Covid-19 times.

Cities have generally been the epicentres of the devastation caused by Covid-19, fuelling debates around the world on how to make cities more resilient against future pandemics.

We are extremely worried by the exponential increase in infection rates and the rising number of daily deaths due to Covid-9.

As a 65-year-old retired school teacher, Md Abul Kalam Azad was looking forward to a relatively comfortable ride into the horizon. While he wasn’t expecting a life of grandeur and indulgence, he wished to see out his last days finally free from the grips of poverty.

Another member of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party, who tested Covid-19 positive earlier, died while undergoing treatment at his residence in Gaibandha.