Shahiduzzaman Sarker, lawmaker of Naogaon-2 constituency, has said that he tested positive for Covid-19.

With more and more police personnel being infected with the highly contagious virus, the 250-bed police hospital in Dhaka is struggling to accommodate patients.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given a set of guidelines on ways to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace.

India announces an extension to the ongoing 40-day nationwide lockdown for two more weeks from May 4 onwards due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Dhaka Bar Association announces Tk 12.29 crore loans for its 5,485 lawyers for a year to face the situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 141 police personnel, including 68 of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), have tested positive for Covid-19 in the 24 hours leading up to 2:30pm today, raising the number of confirmed cases of police to 677 across the country.

The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi takes up with concerned Indian authorities the issue of using bus on Petrapole-Benapole route for bringing back the remaining stranded Bangladeshis in India due to Covid-19-forced lockdown.

Perhaps Bangladesh has the highest number of people out of jobs thanks to the protracted shutdown that has taken away income opportunities for tens of thousands of people, particularly in the informal sector. Or, perhaps not.

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

Local administration of Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila has introduced a digital monitoring system in order to prevent relief misappropriation in the area during Covid-19 outbreak.

Scientists at Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) in India’s Kolkata claim to have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that could treat Covid-19 and a few other diseases.

Another police official infected with Covid-19 dies at Central Police Hospital.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his hard-fought trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and he threatened new tariffs on Beijing, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tells President Vladimir Putin that he has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus and is temporarily stepping down to recover.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain is now past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak and promises to set out a lockdown exit strategy next week, despite rising deaths and criticism of his government’s response.

In a dramatic development, the Directorate General of Drug Administration has allowed Gonoshasthaya Kendra to submit its home-grown rapid test kits for Covid-19 to BSMMU or icddr,b for validation.

The deadly coronavirus has wormed its way into every part of the country, except Rangamati, on the 53rd day since the first case was reported, claiming 168 lives until yesterday.

Nearly a thousand garment factories outside the capital, which resumed operation haphazardly since April 26, didn’t follow the reopening schedule agreed upon at a high-profile meeting five days ago, spurring a huge influx of workers to Dhaka and elsewhere amid coronavirus risks.

The government will provide Tk 2,000 this month to each of 50 lakh urban families clobbered by the shutdown of the economy.

Twenty-five-year old Farzana Aktar has been suffering from fever, cough, sore throat, and muscle pain for the last five days.