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

Chattogram Port workers stage a demonstration demanding proper safety measures required to maintain physical distance following the death of a fellow worker who was diagnosed with Covid-19.

The fallout from Covid-19 has muffled the sound of looms and the buzz of the clothing markets this year during the peak business season for apparels, Eid-ul-Fitr.

Some 96 garment workers and a staffer of a factory were found Covid-19 positive between April 9 and yesterday in the country, read a report of Bangladesh Garment Shramik Sanghati (BGSS).

Private universities that have completed 70 percent of academic activities of current semester and have been conducting online classes successfully for theoretical courses will be able to evaluate their students via viva and presentations online.

The 13 deaths reported yesterday were an unexpected spike in the number of Covid-19 fatalities after over a week in single digits.

Stating that Covid-19 pandemic was badly affecting the police department, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday instructed the authorities to give priority to the treatment of police members.

The coronavirus pandemic will drive an additional 13 million people into poverty, cut 3.7 million jobs, take budget deficit to as high as 7.5 per cent and inflict a minimum revenue loss of 2 per cent of GDP in Bangladesh as the killer bug is wreaking havoc throughout the economy, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned.

At a time when many sectors have come to a standstill due to the countrywide lockdown, production and supply of medicines across the country have been going off without a hitch, thanks to a timely plan of action undertaken by the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA).

The catastrophic public health impact of the Covid-19 crisis has sent the world reeling, but its full ramifications have only begun to unfold.

In America, one of the politically charged reactions to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been the denigration of urban population density.

Coca-Cola in Bangladesh has pledged an initial support of Tk 11.5 crores towards helping the healthcare system and local communities through food package and distribution of beverages to combat the coronavirus crisis, said a press release.

The WHO South-East Asia Region is entering a new phase in its pandemic response. In recent weeks, the spread of Covid-19 in the region has slowed, due in large part to the unprecedented physical distancing measures that countries implemented early and aggressively.

As the government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and businesses on a limited scale from May 10 ahead of the Eid,

Cultivated fishes including carp and shrimp in a number of enclosures in Bagerhat are dying due to scarcity of water amid the hot weather prevailing for the last couple of weeks.

Coronavirus patients declared recovered who later test positive for the disease are still expelling dead lung cells rather than getting a new infection, the World Health Organization (WHO) told AFP on Wednesday.

The United Nations yesterday issued a new appeal for $4.7 billion in funding to “protect millions of lives and stem the spread of coronavirus in fragile countries.”

Some 96 garment workers and a staffer have been found Covid-19 positive in the last 28 days in the country since April 9, according to a report of Bangladesh Garment Shramik Sanghati (BGSS).

Sampadak Parishad (Editors' Council) has expressed grave concern over the recent suing of a cartoonist, a writer and journalists and the subsequent arrests of several of them under the Digital Security Act (DSA) on unsubstantiated grounds.

The US has provided over $22 million to complement Bangladesh’s ongoing efforts in preparing and responding to the spread of novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19).