Cites factories running at 55pc capacity as reason; BGMEA installs 3 PCR labs for Covid-19 test of workers

Owner of the Rana Plaza building that collapsed on April 24, 2013 -- leaving 1,136 people dead in the worst industrial accident in the country in Savar -- dies after being infected with Covid-19.

Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust (BLAST), a rights organisation, today served a legal notice to the government requesting it to take necessary steps to ensure treatment of Covid-19 patients at all hospitals and clinics across the country.

Awami League lawmaker Faridul Haque Khan Dulal from Jamalpur-2 constituency is among 51 who tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours in the district.

Doctors continue to come in harm’s way when treating Covid-19 patients, owing to the lack of proper protective gears.

Some 720 people have died so far showing Covid-19 like symptoms in the country since the first coronavirus case was confirmed on March 8, said a report of Dhaka University’s Centre for Genocide Studies.

Constable Mamun Uddin, 28, who died at Chattogram Medical College Hospital on June 1, tested Covid-19 positive today.

Due to frequent cancellation of scheduled passenger flights due to low passenger count for four days, Biman has now moved to offer chartered flight services on domestic routes.

A massive fall in its turnover sees the Dhaka Stock Exchange to plummet to its lowest position in 13 years.

Sajedul Haq Rubel, general secretary of Communist Party of Bangladesh’s Dhaka city unit, tested Covid 19 positive today.

Thirty-five people died, 2,423 were infected and 571 recovered from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A full autopsy of George Floyd, the handcuffed black man who died after being restrained by Minneapolis police, is released and provides several clinical details, including that Floyd previously tested positive for Covid-19.

Digital Healthcare Solutions launches a one-stop screening (triage) and sample collection for Covid-19 patients at Mugda Medical College Hospital in Dhaka.

At least five persons, including a freedom fighter died of Covid-19-like symptoms in four districts over the last two days.

Bangladesh has urged the European Union to put more pressure on Myanmar to take back Rohingya refugees living in makeshift camps in Cox’s Bazar.

A doctor infected with coronavirus died at Chattogram Medical College Hospital this afternoon. He had earlier been diagnosed with leukemia.

The authorities of United Hospital have been sued for the death of five patients in a fire at the hospital’s coronavirus unit on May 27.

We are coming across, with frightening regularity, reports of patients with Covid-19 symptoms being denied treatment at different private hospitals across the country.

As a reporter, I have written dozens of stories on various aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic even before the deadly virus started to spread in Bangladesh. But today, I am writing the story about how my wife and I contracted the virus, fought against it and won.

The government’s mishandling of the pandemic and people’s disregard for health safety have resulted in the spike of new coronavirus cases, health experts said.