Bangladesh Livestock Research Institute in Savar begins testing samples for coronavirus infection from today.

A seven-year-old, who tested Covid-19 positive, has died at Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital.

Nine people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, DGHS says.

Two Chinese pharma companies that supplied 5.5 lakh rapid testing kits to India for Covid-19 said they are ready to cooperate with Indian agencies probing allegations of poor accuracy of their products.

A couple, who fled from their house in Dhaka after testing positive for coronavirus, is taken to the isolation ward of a hospital in Kushtia.

Hollywood studios are shuffling more release dates as a result of the coronavirus, including sequels to “Doctor Strange,” “Spider-Man: Far From Home” and “Into the Spider-Verse.”

Coronavirus patients will get ICU support at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) from now on as an 18-bed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with ventilators has been set up at its isolation unit.

Diverting the scarce healthcare resources of developing countries to the rapidly expanding COVID-19 pandemic could see a 45 percent jump in child and maternal mortality before the end of the year, an international health consortium warned Thursday.

India is going to almost double its present daily capacity of conducting tests for coronavirus infection by the end of next month, said Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.

Experts yesterday dismissed as reckless and irresponsible US President Donald Trump’s suggestion of injecting disinfectant to treat patients with Covid-19 as global death toll crossed 190,000.

The UN yesterday joined forces with world leaders and the private sector on an initiative to speed up development of COVID-19 vaccines and treatments, and ensure equal access for all.

April in Dhaka is not what we know of. The month behaves almost like spring now.

Soaring prices of essentials in Ramadan have become a major burden at a time when hundreds of thousands of people are struggling with reduced income due to the coronavirus restrictions.

Here we are, in the middle of a global pandemic, desperately trying to figure out how to survive. The US now has the dubious distinction of being the world’s leading nation both in terms of number of deaths and identified cases.

Vegetable farmers in Bogura, Thakurgaon, and Jashore are passing difficult days as sales have drastically fallen during the ongoing shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak.

The horrific images of white plastic body bags in which the final journeys are set during this great pandemic add to the myth of coronavirus as the great leveller.

Iftar is never meant to be had alone. But this year, as Ramadan begins after the new crescent moon was sighted last night, that is precisely what has to happen if this country is to beat the coronavirus pandemic.

The world is passing through a cataclysmic phase. Fear, anxiety and uncertainty have gripped the nations.

Shafiqul Islam Rony is more worried than ever. The health assistant at Mougram community clinic in Pabna feels unprotected every time he goes to work amid a wave of Covid-19 cases in the country.

Bangladesh has had the distinction of ranking amongst the top inland fish producing nations in the world. But the Covid-19 crisis, which has