At least 24 workers are killed and many others injured as a truck carrying them collided with another truck in India’s Uttar Pradesh.

The coronavirus has killed at least 302,489 people worldwide since it surfaced in China late last year, according to an AFP tally on Friday at 1100

The coronavirus could infect a quarter of a billion Africans and put intolerable pressure on the continent’s fragile health system, a new report said yesterday, as the pandemic’s global death toll topped 300,000.

Remember getting caught by your parents for trying out roadside pickles or tawdry coloured crunchy ice outside your school?

When Asiful Hoque tested Covid-19 positive on April 14, his whole world went into a whirlwind at first. But soon enough, the medical officer at Banshkhali Upazila Health Complex in Chattogram gathered himself and rode the wave, because he knew his duty beckoned him.

With law enforcement agencies now busy tackling the coronavirus situation, drug dealers have seemingly taken advantage of the consequent reduction in monitoring and become active again in different spots of the capital.

Three more Rohingyas tested positive for Covid-19 at Ukhia refugee camp yesterday, a day after the first novel coronavirus case was reported in the camp.

Some 7,000 to 8,000 Bangladeshi migrant workers in Bahrain have lost their jobs due to economic shutdown enforced by the country’s government to contain coronavirus pandemic, an official at Bangladesh embassy in Manama said yesterday.

The national technical advisory committee on coronavirus has recommended that all hospitals dedicated to Covid-19 treatment should be brought under a network to reduce the sufferings of patients.

The coronavirus situation will worsen further if the government fails to place the highly affected areas on strict lockdown immediately, experts warn as the number of Covid-19 patients continues to surge despite a nationwide shutdown.

Once the Boro harvest is completed across the country, the nation is unlikely to face cereal shortage in the next six months.

A 55-year-old man died from coronavirus-like symptoms at his home of Vedorganj upazila in Shariatpur.

Doctors for Health and Environment (DHEn) urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to involve all the country’s public and private healthcare facilities and doctors in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

The WHO chief’s subsequent lavish public praise of China’s leadership for its efforts to combat the disease came even as evidence mounted that Chinese officials had silenced whistleblowers and suppressed information about the outbreak. His remarks prompted criticism from some member states for being over the top. US President Donald Trump has led the charge, accusing the WHO of being “China-centric” and suspending American funding of the health agency.

India’s exports contracted by a record 60.28 percent to $10.36 billion in April amid the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, official data shows.

Dharmaraj Tanchangya, moved by the state of some indigenous communities hit-hard by the coronavirus outbreak, put up some of his photograph for sale on his Facebook account.

The coronavirus has now taken 300,000 lives globally, according to official figures. But depending on the way deaths are counted, the real human cost could be far greater.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has so far provided interest free loans to more than 600 Supreme Court lawyers with the SCBA ranks so they can face the ongoing financial crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Fifteen people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours while the total number of infected has crossed the grim milestone of 20,000, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Amnesty International expresses concern about media reports on hospitals in Bangladesh not admitting people exhibiting Covid-19 symptoms.