Seventeen people, including ten police personnel of the same station, test positive for the novel coronavirus in Gopalganj district.

Despite the ongoing nationwide shutdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, dozens of shipbreaking yards have started to reopen at Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today, compelling workers to rejoin work.

A police official in Manikganj’s Naokhanda Mouza has donated 10 decimals of his land to be used for burying unclaimed bodies of those who died after contracting coronavirus or showed symptoms of it.

A woman was diagnosed with Covid-19 days on Sunday night, days after giving birth to a child at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital last Friday.

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

One more person tests positive for coronavirus in Shariatpur, bringing the district's total number of confirmed cases to six.

Two more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Jaintiapur and Gowainghat upazilas in Sylhet, the district’s Civil Surgeon Premananda Mandal said today.

A pregnant nurse has died after contracting the coronavirus but her baby, a girl, was delivered successfully and is doing well, the British hospital where she worked says.

A total of seventy-seven Bangladeshis stranded in India due to the coronavirus outbreak return to the country through Benapole check post in Jashore.

The government will provide 50 lakh more ration cards to vulnerable families hit hard by the countrywide shutdown due to coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says.

Two traffic constables under Chattogram Metropolitan Police test positive for coronavirus.

Twelve persons including a doctor test positive for novel coronavirus in different upazilas of Cumilla district.

A man dies by suicide in Chattogram’s Bashkhali upazila after he was left out of relief net.

Due to the continued shutdown, people are staying home to contain the spread of the highly contagious and the deadly coronavirus.

Like elsewhere, use of disposable gloves and masks has increased rapidly in Sylhet due to the Covid-19 pandemic, but most of the items are not being disposed of properly and thrown on roads, posing a serious health risk.

Amid allegations over theft of rice meant for poor, the government has postponed the open market sale (OMS) and taken an initiative to issue cards for lower-income people across the country to sell them rice at Tk 10.

Flaws in detecting suspected coronavirus cases and collecting samples might be contributing to a relatively low number of positive cases compared to other countries at similar stage, say experts.

The government incentives announced so far to deal with agricultural fallout of Covid-19 provide little relief for farmers awaiting harvest of Boro, the principal crop of the country.

As nearly the entire globe remains in lockdown and international travel is almost at a standstill, international meetings are being cancelled and often replaced by conference calls on Zoom and other online meeting platforms.

There is no denying that 2020 is a write-off for the high-flying Bangladesh economy, shot down to the ground by the novel coronavirus.