Hasina Mohiuddin, wife of late Awami League leader and former mayor of Chattogram City Corporation ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, tests positive for Covid-19.

A total of 451 Bangladeshi nationals from India, Pakistan and Kuwait return home on separate special flights.

”It’s going to be a long night,” I thought to myself as I pressed the redial button for the fourth time.

One of the unnerving things about Covid-19—and there are many—is a lack of definitive information even after the passing of four months of the pandemic.

Family squabbles were becoming all too common in many houses where family members had been spending most of their time together under one roof during the ongoing months-long shutdown.

Around 1000 workers engaged in producing chamcham, a famous delicacy of Tangail, are passing hard days since closure of the sweet shops that sell the item due to lockdown imposed to contain the outbreak of Covid-19.

Ordinarily, it doesn’t make sense for a university to stop paying its staff in the middle of a semester that the students have already paid for.

While health workers are desperately trying to treat Covid-19 and other critically ill patients in hospitals and the public is trying to maintain better hygiene, the fallout of the use of a huge amount of plastic waste generated during the last month or so is being overlooked.

In a mock test by the government for providing cash assistance to 50 lakh poor families, many listed national identification (NID) numbers did not match the ones on the national identification database of the election commission.

The Covid-19 pandemic has already pushed many middle-income families into poverty.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 286,122 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) has issued guidelines for air operators, airports and passengers as part of its efforts to resume flight operations on domestic and international routes on a limited scale after May 16.

The government is likely to extend the ongoing shutdown of most of the public and private offices till May 30 to curb further spread of Covid-19 in the country.

All private hospitals and clinics should have separate arrangements for treating suspected Covid-19 patients, and they cannot refuse any patient if they have the particular treatment facilities, said a health ministry circular.

The country’s death toll due to coronavirus reached 250 with 11 deaths recorded yesterday.

Bangladesh has decided to gradually resume economic activities, a decision that was taken at a time when the daily detection of coronavirus patients in the country is on the rise -- from 418 on 26 April to 1,034 on 11 May.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces a complete economic package of Rs 20 lakh crore, which is nearly 10 percent of the country’s GDP, to deal with the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic and help the country achieve self-reliance.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with assistance from Ekshop of a2i, launches Anondomela, an online marketplace, via video conferencing.

In an effort to contain the spread of coronovirus, the health ministry issues a 13-point directive for the staffers and officials of all ministries and neighbouring offices.

Ten members of a family test positive for Covid-19 in Patiya upazila of Chattogram.