The country yesterday recorded 42 deaths due to Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day.

Facing setbacks in its plan to enforce containment zones in four districts from yesterday, the government is now working to impose a total lockdown in areas that will be marked red and partially in the ones marked yellow in a day or two.

Bangladesh is celebrated as a development success in South Asia and has outperformed many of its neighbours on social development indicators.

Fourteen retired and three serving members of the Armed Forces have died with Covid-19 till today, Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate said in a release.

Three unions under Ukhia upazila and Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar district -- areas inhabited by Rohingya refugees from Myanmar -- have been declared red zones to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka after he was diagnosed with Covid-19.

Former Sylhet city Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran is being taken to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka by a special helicopter of Air Force as his physical condition deteriorated due to Covid-19 infection.

Dr Mirza Nazim Uddin, a senior consultant (medicine) at Square Hospital in Dhaka, has died with Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Local administration declares three areas in Narayanganj to be red zones, and imposed lockdown for the next 15 days starting today, to contain the growing number of coronavirus cases in those areas.

Creating employment opportunities in both private and public sectors, and attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be game changers even amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

A sub-inspector of police in Chattogram who died with coronavirus-like symptoms on Saturday, tested positive for coronavirus.

Forty-two people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

With 207 police personnel testing positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the total number of infected in the force jumped to 6,206 in the country till today.

Rab Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam, who continued drives against irregularities amid the shutdown, tested positive for Covid-19.

The World Health Organization has changed its advice on face masks amid the coronavirus pandemic, saying they should be worn in places where the virus is widespread and physical distancing is difficult.

The numbers related to Covid-19 infections and deaths in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan disguise both widespread undercounting and a rate of growth that was frightening even before the recent lifting of restrictions, the Economist reported.

In the wake of rising Covid-19 deaths and infections across the country, the government today starts enforcing containment zones on a pilot basis in some areas of four districts, including Dhaka.

With people struggling to get tested in time and new cases rising sharply, experts said rapid test kits are now the only answer to the testing crunch.

Researcher and scientist Dr Bijon Kumar Sil is a renowned name in the field of microbiology. In 2003, he invented the SARS coronavirus detection kit in Singapore.

The coronavirus outbreak has become a global problem, creating panic and concern all over the world. The pandemic has restricted movement,