A 33-year-old man, who died in an isolation ward at a hospital in Chandpur on Tuesday, tests negative for coronavirus.

The doctors and nurses at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram have been resilient in discharging their duties in the Covid-19 isolation ward, although they are having to manage their own as there is no support from the hospital authorities.

Seven Bangladeshis, who returned from India today through Akhaura border of Brahmanaria under special arrangement, have been sent to institutional quarantine in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Two people, who were in an isolation ward at Khulna Medical College Hospital after having breathing difficulties, die.

Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media says, but Beijing dismisses claims that there has been any kind of cover-up.

The British government was too slow to react on a number of fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause the deaths of 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, a leading public health professor says.

Fifteen people died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 75, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says during a briefing.

Local administration locked down Joypurhat district after two people tested coronavirus positive for the first time at Zindapur union under Kalai upazila of the district last night.

A total of 17 more people -- including a doctor -- have been identified as coronavirus positive in Lakshmipur yesterday.

US-Bangla Airlines will operate eight special flights on the Chennai-Dhaka and Kolkata-Dhaka routes from April 20 – 25, to bring back over 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis.

A 65-year-old Covid-19 positive patient died at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram this morning.

Police recover 50 sacks of vulnerable group development (VGD) rice, weighing 1,500 kg, from an empty house in Gaibandha’s Sundarganj upazila.

A 28-year-old man tested Covid-19 positive in Feni's Chagolnaiya upazila last night, making him the first confirmed coronavirus case in the district.

The medicine unit of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital was locked down last night after a patient treated in the unit tested Covid-19 positive.

Ramna Police arrests four people from the Bangla Motor area in Dhaka on charges of storing Covid-19 testing kits and other equipment used in combating the virus and selling those at hiked prices.

Local authorities lock down Pirojpur district for an indefinite period to contain the spread of coronavirus.

An 18-year-old died with coronavirus-like symptoms in Chattogram General Hospital early this morning.

Garment export falls drastically, by 83.74 percent to $194 million in the first 15 days of April compared to the same period last year, according to data from Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).

Britain extends its nationwide lockdown as stand-in leader Dominic Raab has ordered Britons to stay at home for at least another three weeks to prevent the spread of a coronavirus outbreak which has already claimed over 138,000 lives globally.

Salaries of about 87 percent of the garment workers have been disbursed, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) claimed yesterday as workers staged demonstrations demanding wages in different parts of the country, mostly in the capital and its adjacent districts.