Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal requests Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to provide continuous support to minimise the effects of the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak and the resultant nationwide shutdown.

Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is worried that some German states are being “very brisk” in relaxing their social distancing efforts, stressing that the coronavirus pandemic is “still at the beginning”, and calls for a bigger European Union budget to support economic recovery in the bloc.

The United Kingdom’s economy is crumbling under the strain of the coronavirus lockdown and government borrowing is soaring to the highest levels in peacetime history, increasing pressure on the government to set out an exit strategy.

VIP or not, everyone will be treated at the same hospitals and will be given same facilities in case of coronavirus infection, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

As the Covid-19 pandemic cripples the world and its economy with thousands of cases every day, the biggest victims are the poor, who cannot afford to stay home. Keeping them in mind, independent filmmakers from Bangladesh and beyond have created ‘Film for Humanity’.

Seven people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Health Minister Zahid Maleque say

Two asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos were shot and injured after apparently violating coronavirus quarantine rules, officials says.

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Birdem General Hospital has been closed after four patients undergoing treatment there tested positive for coronavirus.

President Donald Trump announces he has partially suspended immigration to the United States, with the aim of keeping foreigners out of local jobs during the coronavirus crisis.

The World Health Organization warns that the coronavirus crisis will not end any time soon, with many countries only in the early stages of the fight, as the global death toll surpassed 180,000.

Four people, including a physician, test positive for coronavirus according to tests conducted at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID).

A doctor and seven medical staff of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) test positive for Covid-19.

Dhaka remains the worst affected division in the country with over 85 percent of all confirmed cases of the coronavirus.

We did not know about this invisible enemy even a few months ago. Yet, in this short period of time, it has affected 210 countries and territories around the world, infected over 2.5 million people and killed over 180,000 globally.

The government has decided in principle to extend the ongoing shutdown of all public and private offices till May 5 to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus in the country.

One of the biggest lessons coming out of the Covid-19 pandemic is that we are living in an interlinked world where no country can cut itself off for very long and no country can tackle the problem by itself. This lesson is even more true as we battle the double whammy of Covid-19 and the climate change.

In light of rising concerns over the Covid-19 outbreak, public universities had earlier shut down in-person classes. But most of them are yet to offer students alternative online education.

It all began when Patient Zero was identified with Covid-19 on December 31, 2019, in Wuhan City, China. Since then, life around the world has changed.

It is most unfortunate that many amongst us have taken the directives given by the government to stay at home and maintain social distancing very lightly, despite the fact that the numbers of new infections and deaths from Covid-19 are increasing every day in the country.

In her speech on April 20, the prime minister warned about the possibility of a global food shortage due to the coronavirus if steps are not taken in