Despite repeated calls from the union leaders for paying the workers of closed factories at least 65 percent of their gross salaries for April, the owners at a meeting yesterday refused to offer any more than 60 percent.

Bangladesh wants labour-receiving countries to ensure that Bangladeshi migrants who lose their jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic get at least six months’ salary.

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.

The government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and other businesses from May 10 on a limited scale ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

It is 58 days since the first Covid-19 infection was recorded in Bangladesh. February now feels like a distant memory, even early March.

At a time when most of humanity is subdued because of the ongoing pandemic, Bidyanondo Foundation has been one of the first responders to the crisis, providing food and medical safety gear to people who needed them the most.

The picture in yesterday’s front page says it all. Hundreds of garment workers leaving their factory in Ashulia in crowds, totally disregarding the government’s social distancing directives.

Italy’s coronavirus death toll is much higher than reported, statistics bureau ISTAT says in an analysis pointing to thousands of fatalities that have never been officially attributed to Covid-19.

United Nations leaders call for a global effort to develop and distribute to all at affordable prices vaccines, treatments and testing kits against Covid-19.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen urges Non-Allied Movement (NAM) members to find innovative solutions and approaches to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Deputy commissioner of Habiganj district tests positive for Covid-19 and is placed in home quarantine.

The Vietnamese people are now celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Great Victory on April 30, 1975, the liberation of the South, the reunification of the country and the 130th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh on May 19.

Pasturers rearing cattle for milk in Chapainawabganj are facing hardship as the demand for their product plunged following the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The government extends the ongoing suspension on all types of public transport till May 16 to check spread of Covid-19 in the country.

Hundreds of migrant workers in India’s Gujarat looking to return home amid the nationwide Covid-19-enforced lockdown clash with police near a village in Surat district.

A 35-year-old man in Shariatpur reportedly fled his house after his samples were collected to test for Covid-19, three days before his test results comes back positive for the virus.

The government has decided to allow all markets, shops and shopping malls across the country to remain open till 4:00pm from May 10.