Around 100 doctors have been infected with coronavirus so far in the country, according to a tally of Bangladesh Doctors Foundation, an organisation of doctors.

Another one lakh low-income families from across the country have been provided cash assistance by Brac, the world’s biggest non-government organisation, to help the families amid the economic fallout from coronavirus pandemic.

Hasina Akther Huq, former country director for Brac in Uganda during the Ebola outbreak, sees parallels between the current coronavirus situation in Bangladesh and the Ebola outbreak in the African nation.

We need our health-care workers more than ever before, but that does not give us the right to make inhumane demands of them that may be tantamount to human rights violations.

April 13 was Easter Monday, an everlasting testimony to the resurrection of Christ after his crucifixion and its symbolic assertion that there is life after what is perceived as death. In the midst of a somewhat stifling home confinement in fear of the ubiquitously merciless and relentlessly marauding novel coronavirus, somehow the day and its symbolism was comfortingly reassuring.

A recent report published in this daily sheds light on the dire situation faced by a large population consisting of multiple ethnic minorities spread across the country, who remain at risk of being ignored from receiving aid, mainly food relief, during this pandemic.

With the highest number of deaths (15) in 24 hours on April 17, public health experts have warned that the country is heading towards the fourth stage of coronavirus transmission when the virus spreads quickly.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans say President Donald Trump was too slow in taking major steps to address the threat to the United States from new coronavirus, a poll published on Thursday said.

Sadek Ali, a boatman who plies his trade on the Buriganga, took loans from his relatives to send his only son to Brunei two months ago. This, he hoped, would bring his family better days, and finally allow him to retire from after a 20-year long career.

The US-Bangla Airlines will operate eight special flights on Chennai-Dhaka and Kolkata-Dhaka routes from April 20 to bring back over 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis who went there for treatment.

Hundreds of thousands of children could die this year due to the global economic downturn sparked by the coronavirus pandemic and tens of millions more could fall into extreme poverty as a result of the crisis, the United Nations warned on Thursday.

The Covid-19 crisis has affected the entire world and hit the developing countries like Bangladesh even harder -- a fact that calls for greater global cooperation and solidarity.

Deaths from Covid-19 hit a new high as the authorities said another 15 people died in 24 hours till 2:30pm yesterday, taking the official death toll to 75.

The local administration announces the lockdown of Panchagarh district after a woman tested positive for Covid-19 in Tirnoihat union under Tetulia upazila, the first confirmed case in the district.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expresses concern over ruling Awami League’s announcement to form partisan “relief committee” at ward level to help local administration in relief distribution.

Five people, including two of a family, test positive for Coronavirus in Jamalpur, bringing the total number of cases in the district to 21.

The local administration puts Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram under lockdown in an effort to contain the spread and transmission of coronavirus.

Sixty-three Bangladeshis reportedly have tested positive for Covid-19 in Malaysia.

A total of 542 Canadian and Australian citizens, who were stranded in Bangladesh following the outbreak of coronavirus, leave Dhaka for their respective countries on separate chartered flights.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended his shutdown order in the US coronavirus outbreak epicenter until May 15, citing data showing improved conditions but insisting on the need to maintain vigilance.