Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd will try to produce any drug that can treat Covid-19, says Simeen Hossain, managing director and chief executive officer of the company.

Indian government-run Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has given its green signal to a multi-institutional project to develop human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that it claims can neutralise coronavirus in patients.

Thousands of migrants stranded “all over the world” are facing a heightened risk of Covid-19 infection, says António Vitorino, director general of International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency.

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc in the lives of millions with devastating economic and social impacts. Although no country or people have been spared from its rampage, it is being experienced differently in terms of gender, class and socioeconomic situations.

It is worrying that as the country is preparing to ease the lockdown before Eid to mitigate the economic fallout of the crisis, the ground realities

To render medicare to non-Covid-19 patients living in remote areas, Cox’s Bazar district administration has initiated a mobile hospital service.

Major social advances have often emerged from the depths of disaster: the Black Death brought an end to serfdom, and Britain’s welfare state emerged from the ruins of World War II.

The government may introduce a coronavirus tax on tobacco products and several luxury goods while giving tax cuts to internet services.

The government has recently issued a set of guidelines on health safety measures that have to be strictly followed after the reopening of industries, businesses, educational institutions and services amid the coronavirus outbreak.

One and a half months into the closure of in-person classes due to the coronavirus outbreak, the majority of schools, colleges and universities across the country have yet to introduce online education.

Incredulous, is what one would sigh when chancing upon April’s export receipts, which hit rock-bottom at $520.01 million.

Dhaka New Market Business Association decides not to reopen the markets from May 10 due to the growing number of Covid-19 infected persons in Dhaka and elsewhere.

A decision of waiving 40 percent house rent for workers in Savar industrial area is taken with a view to reduce their burden during the crisis period of coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 99 prisoners have been released from Bogura district jail to lower coronavirus transmission possibility in jail.

All seven members of a family have recovered from Covid-19 following 11 days of treatment at a Chattogram hospital.

The Directorate General and Health Service has issued technical guidelines in order to reopen businesses, educational institutions, public transportation, and passenger flight services amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading drug manufacturing companies of the country, successfully produces Remdesivir, the drug used to treat coronavirus.

The assistant teacher candidates appearing in the 2018 recruitment test of primary schools have lend their hands for harvesting Boro paddy in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat today.

At least 144 more police personnel were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24-hours across the country, according to a tally of the Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

As part of its biggest ever repatriation exercise dubbed as “Vande Bharat Mission”, India has begun repatriating citizens who were stranded globally -- including Bangladesh -- due to lockdown imposed to check the spread of coronavirus infection.