Only thirteen beds out of 1,292 are enhanced with ICU facilities in eight districts of Rangpur Division to treat Covid-19 patients.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal seeks more assistance from Asian Development Bank (ADB) to tackle the financial crisis thanks to the coronavirus outbreak.

Local administration, under the supervision of army, is working on preparing at least 10 establishments at different places in Chattogram to ensure safe quarantine of around 4,000 Bangladeshis likely to return home from abroad through the port city within the current month.

Displaced women and girls are facing a heightened risk of gender-based violence during the coronavirus crisis, UNHCR Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, Gillian Triggs, warned today.

Hundred and sixty-four Bangladeshis, who were stranded in India for over a month, return home.

About 1.5 million residents in Dhaka will benefit from improved sanitation services following the approval of a $170 million loan by the Board of Directors of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).

Five people have died with Covid-19 like symptoms in five districts.

World Food Programme (WFP) has started distributing food to the most vulnerable families in Cox’s Bazar impacted by the countrywide shutdown due to coronavirus (Covid-19).

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

While some refuse to help their own family members out of fear of the coronavirus, others step up to take care of complete strangers. United under the banner of ‘Health Service Volunteers’, around 100 people took an oath recently to aid people infected with Covid-19, in Bagerhat Sadar and Kachua upazilas.

Thailand has found the largest number of nests of rare leatherback sea turtles in two decades on beaches bereft of tourists because of the coronavirus pandemic, environmentalists say.

The state of New York, epicenter of America's coronavirus infections, appeared to have passed the peak of the outbreak Sunday, as President Donald Trump bumped heads with governors over the pace of ending lockdowns.

A village has been put under lockdown in Noakhali’s Sadar upazila as a 20-year-old tested positive for coronavirus.

On the eve of India entering the 26th straight day of a nationwide lockdown forced by Covid-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says the contagion has significantly changed the contours of professional life and trade and calls for new office and business models.

Global digital platforms Google and Facebook will be forced to pay for news content in Australia, the government says as the coronavirus pandemic causes a collapse in advertising revenue.

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus rose to more than 40,000, the highest in the world and almost double the number of deaths in the next highest country Italy, according to a Reuters tally.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and other emergency medical supplies to the Bangladesh government to support preparedness and response in regard to the Covid-19 outbreak in Cox’s Bazar.

While one-fourth of the world’s population is under home-quarantine to contain the spread of the novel Covid-19 pandemic, another crisis is brewing behind closed doors—domestic violence.

As COVID-19 continues to roll out and thwart the fates and fortunes of people in the doldrums, the government of Bangladesh is poised to take several initiatives to help combat the health and economic crisis that is sweeping across the nation.

The pandemic and its economic impact will be felt very strongly by the poor.