A statistician of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) died during his second bout with coronavirus infection in Dhaka Medical College Hospital this morning.

Chattogram district’s Civil Surgeon’s Office has categorised nine upazilas as red zones for Covid-19 infection.

Saudi Arabia has endorsed Bangladesh’s proposal to form a Covid-19 Response and Recovery Plan to save lives and livelihood in the member countries of the Organizaton of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Local administration seizes around 1,000 litres of adulterated hand sanitiser and fined tradersTk 75,000 for running their businesses illegally at different parts of Chattogram city.

A woman died of Covid-19 symptoms while waiting in an ambulance, holding on to the hope of getting admitted at the ICU of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) yesterday.

Sex workers in Bangladesh are facing a serious crisis amid the ongoing Covid-19 crisis and lockdown measures, with many having lost their incomes and surviving on very little.

The US has announced $173 million in new funding to support Bangladesh’s Covid-19 response efforts and the development and economic recovery plan in the aftermath of the pandemic.

Bangladesh Railway (BR) will not increase the number of trains for now, rather it may reduce the number due to lack of passengers.

Thirty-eight patients died, 3,099 were infected in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Two members of Bangladesh Police, who tested positive for Covid-19 earlier, died in Dhaka while undergoing treatment at two different hospitals today.

An official of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) dies with symptoms of coronavirus infection in Pabna.

Former Sylhet city mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran died with Covid-19 early today.

Social distancing, using face masks and face shields and ensuring proper hygiene are important points to remember in the effort to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

This week, in The Daily Star’s new interview series that aims to give readers an idea of what changes to expect in a post-Covid 19 world, Dr Quamrul Haider talks to Badiuzzaman Bay.

The Covid-19 pandemic will be recorded as one of the most consequential events in human history. A small part of that history will relate to how governments interacted with their populations in responding to the crisis.

As the country’s economy has been hit hard by the pandemic, unemployment and loss of income have become a sad reality for the women

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University is going to submit within a day or two the results of performance trial of the coronavirus antibody testing kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.

Amid a worsening healthcare crisis in the city, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and community leaders have teamed up to turn two community centres into isolation centres, in a bid to deal with the increasing number of Covid-19 patients.

India’s federal government yesterday said it will provide New Delhi’s city authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for coronavirus patients, after a surge in the number of cases led to a shortage of hospital beds.

The visiting Chinese medical experts have said the use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, and Arbidol can be effective to some extent.