Bangladesh appears to be the only country in the world where the Covid-19 death rate is higher than the recovery rate.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) has launched an investigation to find out whether the garment factories that are going for temporary closures following mass order cancellations are doing so by the book.

Ignoring the risks of contracting and spreading the coronavirus, hundreds of garment factory workers left their villages yesterday on foot or jammed into whatever vehicle they could get to join work in Dhaka and its outskirts.

“Ma’am, could you possibly tell me when would the university go back to its usual routine?”

After a month of corona-induced lockdown, Bangladesh’s infection rates and death records are proportionally still lower than many other countries, according to official data.

While the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) claims that providing oxygen to patients will not be a problem, patients and doctors beg to differ.

To support the COVID-19 affected economy, some experts are suggesting that the government of Bangladesh should go for printing money. However, I feel that there is no need to take such a radical measure since Bangladesh has a number of policy tools at its hand at the moment to heat up the economy.

When COVID-19 reached some of the most protected and powerful people of the world like the resident of Number 10, Downing Street and the best known royal Prince Charles or forced Prime Minister Trudeau to self-isolate, many people described this virus as a great leveller.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private sector adviser Salman F Rahman says the country’s export-oriented factories must begin to open slowly and by maintaining necessary health protocols in order to save the economy.

Twenty-six former and current ambassadors to the UN, including Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, launch a music video with a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World”, in tribute to all those contributing to healing the world -- doctors, nurses, healthcare workers.

A total 28 people, including 5 doctors, 3 policemen, and 4 magistrates, are found to have tested positive for Covid-19 in Jamalpur and Habiganj districts.

A total of 198 British citizens who were stranded in Bangladesh leave Dhaka for London on a special flight.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that there is no evidence that people who test positive for the new coronavirus are immunised and protected against reinfection.

Authorities of two readymade garment factories in Savar's Ashulia have laid off around 1,100 workers citing economic fallout due to the coronavirus pandemic.

After two days and following plenty of confusion over a Covid-19 infected woman who fled from a hospital in Sylhet while another woman having the same name being discharged on the same day, police have finally found the ‘real’ patient.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain suspends till April 27 his earlier decision to run court functions to a short extent.

Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed hands over safety equipment to Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) so that police personnel who are discharging duties amid the outbreak of coronavirus are better protected.

A total of 166 Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India’s Chennai for over a month, returned to Dhaka on a special flight of the US-Bangla Airlines today.

World Child Cancer (WCC), a UK-based charity organisation, extends its helping hand to the doctors and nurses involved in cancer treatment in the time of coronavirus pandemic in Bangladesh.

The newly appointed Rab Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun has warned of taking stern action against any one found carrying out narcotics smuggling, criminal or militant activities during this period of coronavirus.