A traffic constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police who recently recovered from Covid-19 infection donates his plasma to a doctor suffering from coronavirus infection and undergoing treatment at Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH).

Bangladesh Railway will resume operations of intercity train services on a limited scale from May 31.

Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram has announced that they will be suspending Covid-19 testing operations for three days after three staffers of its laboratory tested positive for coronavirus.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) gives permission to Chittagong University (CU) for conducting coronavirus tests at its lab after the university made a request in this regard.

The Bangladesh Bank has today asked banks to keep all their branches across the country open from May 31.

Half-yearly exams of secondary schools will be deferred due to closure of educational institutions to curb coronavirus transmission, said Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education (DSHE) officials.

Another police officer, who was tested Covid-19 positive, died at Impulse Hospital in Dhaka.

Fifteen people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) provides food assistance to some 7,000 families who work at different ongoing economic zones and whose livelihoods are affected by the prolonged nationwide shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.

US deaths from the novel coronavirus topped 100,000 on Wednesday even as the daily average death toll declines, businesses reopen and Americans emerge from lockdowns across the country.

The ongoing Covid-19 pandemic is inflicting a shock to the employability of the vulnerable youth population in Bangladesh, according to a report of the International Labour Organization (ILO).

The government has decided not to extend the ongoing shutdown following May 30. And in a renewed decision, the government has also decided to start public transport—road, rail and waterways—on a limited scale starting May 31.

Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has directed to treat Covid-19 patients in all government and private hospitals in the country.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra's founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested Covid-19 positive according to the organisation's newly developed Rapid Dot Blot test, has been receiving plasma therapy.

The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and Metropolitan Chambers and Commerce Industry (MCCI), Dhaka express their deep mourning over the passing of Niloufer Manzur, a renowned educationist and the founding principal of Sunbeams School.

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

Prof Dr Shakeel Ahmed, in-charge of Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID), had been feeling unwell since Saturday. But the doctor did not take it seriously and continued his duty in the laboratory. Yesterday, he decided to test his own sample and found the result Covid-19 positive.

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Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina expresses deep shock and sorrow at the death of Niloufer Manzur, a renowned educationist and the founding principal of Dhaka’s Sunbeams School.