It is heart-warming to learn from a report in The Daily Star that a group of Dhaka University students led by a DUCSU member has been serving free

After around a month, the government yesterday lifted restrictions on people gathering at mosques, but said the mosque authorities must follow some health guidelines.

The country continues to see a record surge in coronavirus infections every day with 790 new cases reported yesterday, taking the total to 11,719.

In a press conference in mid-March, WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus had memorably said it is not possible to “fight a fire blindfolded” and

Even a month ago, small trader Didar Hossain had quite a decent life.

Another police official died from coronavirus at a city hospital, while a journalist died after showing coronavirus symptoms.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra will start giving 1,200 home-manufactured rapid testing kits in phases to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) from Saturday (May 9) for validation.

A Sri Lankan national has been tested positive for Covid-19 in Chattogram.

India sends emergency medical assistance consisting of 30,000 RT-PCR Covid-19 test kits to Bangladesh under the Saarc Covid-19 Emergency Fund.

Ten people, who were diagnosed with coronavirus in Sylhet and Bogura last month, leave hospitals after their recovery.

Agriculture Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque says nearly 90 percent Boro paddy in haor areas of the country have been harvested so far despite the Covid-19 pandemic across the country.

With no people in sight, the animals housed at Bangladesh National Zoo in Mirpur-1 seem to be having the time of their lives (however much is possible within the confines of a cage).

Jamuna Future Park mall in Dhaka will remain closed until the Covid-19 situation improves in the country. Bashundhara City Shopping Complex, also, will not open before the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, despite the government allowing all markets to open from May 10.

Some 135 Bangladeshis, who returned from India today through Benapole border in Jashore, have been sent to institutional quarantine to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to the health secretary and the director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, requesting them to take necessary steps in five days to set up Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) laboratories in every district of the country in order to quickly complete Covid-19 tests.

Three more die, 790 test positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours, says Directorate General of Health Services. Meanwhile, no new patients recovered.

Eight health staffers, including three doctors and two nurses, of Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.

The White House coronavirus task force will wind down as the country moves into a second phase that focuses on the aftermath of the outbreak, President Donald Trump says.

Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan file back to class, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners.

In the steepest spike witnessed so far, India has recorded 195 deaths, 3,900 cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 1,568 and number of infections to 46,433, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.