A coronavirus testing lab has been set up in the Centre for Advance Research of Dhaka University in the social science faculty building.

Eight more garment factory workers tested positive for Covid-19 in Savar, raising the total number of infected RMG workers in Savar upazila with coronavirus to 20.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain, in line with the government's decision, extends the ongoing closure of all courts across the country, including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court, till May 16 due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Workers of a readymade garment factory stage a demonstration in Savar’s Ashulia on the outskirts of the capital, demanding arrears and protesting the prolonged closure of the factory in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic.

The unforeseen coronavirus crisis has been causing an inevitable and maybe a necessary market correction. Although if anything is obvious in business, it is that there will always be threats and upheavals for the CxOs to grapple with. Some of these threats are within the organizations, and some are external or superficial. The coronavirus crisis is just the newest such case in point.

All educational institutions will remain closed till May 30, on the occasion of Ramadan and Eid-ul-Fitr, says secondary and higher education secretary Mahbub Hossain.

Two officials of Sonali Bank’s Nandigram branch in Bogura were stabbed by muggers on the Natore-Bogura highway in Shajahanpur upazila of the district earlier today.

India will take back its nationals, who are stranded in Bangladesh during the ongoing shutdown enforced due to the coronavirus pandemic, by air.

The number of Covid-19 infected police personnel across the country has reached 1,153 as of this noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

Sixteen intern doctors of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College test positive for Covid-19 days after another intern doctor of the same batch was reported positive.

786 tested positive for the coronavirus in 24 hours, the DGHS has confirmed. Meanwhile, 1 person died and 193 have recovered across the country.

A new forecast projects nearly 135,000 deaths due to COVID-19 in the United States through the beginning of August mainly due to reopening measures under way, says the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington.

The World Health Organization says that Washington has provided no evidence to support "speculative" claims by the US president that the new coronavirus originated in a Chinese lab.

The government appoints 2,000 doctors as assistant surgeons in the BCS (Health) Cadre to fight the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

A 50-bed health complex in Goshairhat upazila of Shariatpur has been put under lockdown after the domestic help of a nurse there tests positive for coronavirus.

A Saudi expatriate, who died on Monday morning at his home in Enayet Bazar area of Chattogram city, is found Covid-19 positive.

While the government has extended the ongoing shutdown to May 16 to ensure social distancing, many continue to crowd roads amid the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country.

The world watched in paralysed horror as oil prices plummeted to below zero: the price of West Texas Intermediate oil grade went negative to –USD 37.63 per barrel (pb), for the first time in history. The shock of the collapse was intense, leading to traders naming the day “Black Monday”.

While health officials still do not know when the coronavirus outbreak will peak and then plateau, confirmed coronavirus cases crossed the 10,000 mark with the announcement of a record 688 new cases yesterday.

Lockdown, first instituted by the Chinese government, has become an unprecedented yet effective intervention for prevention of the transmission of Covid-19 throughout the world.