The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) will begin the performance trial of home-grown Covid-19 testing kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra today.

Health workers and police personnel who come in close contact with unidentified dead bodies for conducting autopsies and enquiries are at a high risk of Covid-19 infection.

Eggs producers in Bangladesh have been counting huge losses due to the decline in retail prices of the protein because of the demand collapse amid the coronavirus-induced countrywide shutdown and higher production cost.

A goal without a plan is just a wish, said the French writer and pioneering aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.

When the tortoise agreed to ferry a stranded scorpion on its back across the river, which was in spate, he didn’t know what he had bargained for. Midway, the scorpion stung the tortoise, deep, through its hard shell.

When there was no effective drug to treat Covid-19 patients in the country, anti-viral generic drug Remdesivir, brought by Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd, offers a ray of hope, Dr ABM Abdullah, personal physician of the prime minister, said at a discussion yesterday.

The current global COVID-19 crisis has placed severe strain upon the apparel industry supply chain, with Bangladesh Ready-Made Garment (RMG) manufacturers and related ancillary industries feeling the financial effects of the global collapse in clothing retail.

Around 14,500 tonnes of hazardous plastic waste have been produced from the single use surgical face masks, gloves, hand sanitisers bottles, and polythene bags in the first month of the shutdown, says a study report.

On the first day of the reopening of some markets in the capital yesterday amid the Covid-19 outbreak, many shoppers and store staffers were found to have flouted the directives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, laying people’s health safety on the line.

The greatest dilemma that Rajib Chandra Das, a waste and sanitation worker form Laksam, Cumilla experienced over the last couple of months was whether to serve or starve. Sadly, he has to choose the first. “Serving amidst a pandemic without proper safety gear is a threat to life, but I can’t tolerate my family starving. Of course I do fear death, but I hate hunger the most.”

The Covid-19 outbreak in the country turned grimmer yesterday as health authorities reported a new record of coronavirus infection and a spike in fatalities.

Increasing allocation for the health sector is a common and justified demand in Bangladesh. With an allocation of 0.9 percent of gross domestic product and less than five percent of total budget expenditure the country has very little healthcare investment for its citizens.

Mentioning that people are suffering a lot due to the shutdown, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was trying to reopen some sectors gradually so that the poor could earn their livelihoods.

Time is of the utmost essence in emergency care. But in this pandemic, as hospitals take on the challenge of a rising number of patients, emergency care is denied to many, resulting in fatal consequences.

With the “Great Lockdown” poised to cause the worst global recession in nearly a century, young Bangladeshis—who were already struggling with

While conducting an epidemiological surveillance is crucial to understand and fight the outbreak of an extremely contagious disease like Covid-19, it is worrying that we are yet to carry out any such surveillance to handle the outbreak of the disease in the country.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 279,185 people do far, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT yesterday.

The government’s move to provide cash assistance to 50 lakh poor families hit by the coronavirus pandemic is finally taking off, with the four major mobile financial service providers set to deliver it from May 14.

Action will be taken against those misusing the digital security act, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says.

Fisheries and Livestock Minister SM Rezaul Karim says that the government will undertake all necessary measures including providing financial aid, to compensate for losses in the sector amid the coronavirus crisis period.