The number of patients that have recovered from Covid-19 jumps from 177 to 1,063 in just one day. Why is the sudden jump in number of recovered patients?

The central bank today directed banks to transfer all interest accrued or to be accrued between April 1 and May 31 this year from all of their loans to an interest-free blocked account.

Nine members of fire service and civil defence, including a deputy assistant director, have so far tested Covid-19 positive.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says that the readymade garment factories will be operated by strictly maintaining health rules for the sake of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Armed people recently tried to storm Michigan state governor’s office to force him to withdraw lockdown. In the US, there is debate about whether to follow science and continue the lockdown or withdraw it and resume economic activities.

221 Bangladeshi nationals return home from India on two special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines after being stranded in the neighbouring country for more than one and half months due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

At least 211 people are killed in road accidents across the country in one month of the ongoing shutdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.

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

One hundred and thirteen police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 across the country since yesterday noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

In recent years, Dhaka was developing an eating-out culture for iftar and sehri, like in the cosmopolitan cities in the Middle East and Southeast Asia,

Press freedom in Bangladesh has been in decline long before the coronavirus came to our shores.

As COVID-19 spreads, repression and disinformation have generally followed in its wake.

It is a matter of grave concern that we still do not have enough designated hospitals or institutions to conduct Covid-19 tests. While initially only the

An overwhelming number of people, both in the formal and informal sectors, have lost their jobs in Bangladesh due to the pandemic, but unfortunately the government lacks any data on the actual number of people who may have been impacted.

We know that intensive care unit (ICU) is for critically ill patients. We also know that we have a scarcity of ICU beds as well as specialists in critical care management in Bangladesh.

Almost all nutrients in the diet play a crucial role in maintaining an optimal immune response, and both insufficient and excessive intakes can have negative consequences on the immune status and susceptibility to a variety of pathogens. Among the most important ones are zinc and selenium.

Contact tracing to rapidly isolate people who could be infected with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) reduced the length of time people were infectious in the community over 4 weeks (from 14 January to 12 February 2020) in Shenzhen, China, according to a study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.

The government is likely to extend the ongoing shutdown for most public and private offices until May 16.

As the number of Covid-19 deaths and infected patients keep going up, experts blame it on inadequate case detection and isolation measures taken up by the authorities.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for greater protection of journalists who are providing the “antidote” to what he has characterised as a pandemic of misinformation surrounding the Covid-19 crisis.