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Five people test positive for coronavirus in Maheshkhali upazila, an island under Cox’s Bazar district.

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus reaches 50,000, having doubled in 10 days, according to a Reuters tally.

The local administration distributes government relief to a remote village in Bandarban’s Lama upazila after The Daily Star ran a report on food crisis among people in the village.

Nineteen staffers, including six doctors and seven nurses, of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

Grameenphone today said they have donated Tk 15 crore to Brac’s emergency food assistance fund, which will help 100,000 families, who have become jobless following the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

As part of its humanitarian effort, Grameen Shakti head office staffers have started providing food support to some 1,750 underprivileged families across the country.

India records 1,684 new Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, the highest in that time span so far, bringing the total number of cases to 23,077.

A total of 332 more Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 pandemic, return home from New Delhi and Chennai on two chartered flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and US-Bangla airlines respectively.

Save Youth Bangladesh, a Dhaka University (DU) based youth platform, offers 32 youth researchers from nine public universities to conduct social research on different aspects including impact of covid-19 in the country.

Despite showing no symptoms, four members of a family at Sakhipur upazila in Tangail district tested positive for coronavirus today.

A union parishad chairman and a female member of Patuakhali are suspended for allegedly stealing relief rice.

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

A medical technologist from Rupsha upazilla of Khulna who collected samples from Covid-19 patients has tested positive for coronavirus infection, the district’s civil surgeon says.

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

A woman who was reported to have fled from MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital after developing coronavirus-like symptoms says she had in fact been discharged from the hospital.

The House of Representatives passes a new $483 billion economic stimulus bill as US job losses due to the coronavirus soars and businesses clamors for more support.

With the number of coronavirus cases in Bangladesh jumping by around 300-400 per day and the ongoing nationwide shutdown extended to May 5, it is clear that we still have a long way to go in dealing with this crisis. Academics have warned that this prolonged shutdown will lead to a significant increase in session jams at public universities.

It is worrying that the number of Covid-19 cases has been increasing alarmingly in Dhaka, with over 85 percent of all confirmed cases recorded in the division.

The Bangladesh Bank yesterday formed a refinance scheme of Tk 15,000 crore for the industrial and service sectors, much to the relief of the cash-strapped banking sector that was fretting about implementing the Tk 30,000 crore stimulus package announced on April 12 for the two from their own sources.