A coalition of leading development organisations today called on the government and other development actors to prioritise needs of the marginalised with taking comprehensive, inclusive and far-sighted measures to protect extreme poor population in rural and urban areas amid evolving coronavirus situation.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has advised all city dwellers not to be on the streets with their vehicles during the ongoing closure unless for emergencies, or else they may face legal action for defying the directive.

Six recent studies by the Brac James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), Brac University and Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) explore the toll the coronavirus outbreak is taking on the general and mental health of people in Bangladesh.

Defying the nationwide shutdown to curb the transmission of Covid-19, thousands of people today took part in the janaza of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish’s ‘Nayeb-e Amir’ Maulana Zubayer Ahmad Ansari, held at a madrasa in Bertola village under Sorail upazila of Brahmanbaria district.

The House went into its seventh session this afternoon for a very brief period due to spread of Covid-19 in different parts of the country.

The word quarantine first came around to use in Italy’s Venice in 1127. It was used in response to Leprosy and was later heavily used during the Black Death. It took another 300 years until the UK properly began to impose quarantine measures in response to plague.

A Bangladeshi labour counsellor working in Jeddah has been infected with Covid-19, foreign ministry says.

A 35-year-old man dies, a day after he was sent to the isolation centre of Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in Sylhet with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Nine died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, IEDCR says.

The Indian health ministry says the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the country was doubling has slowed post the nationwide lockdown.

The Nigerian president's chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen says on Twitter.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro calls for the reopening of the country's borders, as he pushes to restart South America's largest economy.

A Trauma Centre located at Mohipal in Sadar upazila of Feni is declared as an isolation unit for the treatment of coronavirus-infected patients.

Two more people in Faridpur test positive for coronavirus infection, bringing the total number of infected in the district to four.

The Indian home ministry asks all states to trace and medically screen all Rohingya Muslim refugees in the country over concerns that they may have attended Tablighi Jamaat’s congregation and Ijtema resulting into contraction of coronavirus.

A pattern is emerging among Covid-19 patients arriving at hospitals in New York: Beyond fever, cough and shortness of breath, some are deeply disoriented to the point of not knowing where they are or what year it is.

World coronavirus deaths surged past 150,000 as US President Donald Trump accuses China of continuing to cover up its toll, even after Beijing revised figures sharply upward for Wuhan, the original epicentre of the global pandemic.

A 30-year-old woman in Shariatpur has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the district's confirmed cases to seven.

Digital Health (DH), a Grameen social business, has launched a new insurance coverage for individuals for coronavirus-related expenses.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is to go tougher with an aim to ensure social distancing in the capital.