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.

The Covid-19 pandemic, sowing misery across the world, has thrown the role of the state into stark relief.

Much of the workplace in Bangladesh has shut down, sending millions of employees home to wait out the coronavirus pandemic.

The coronavirus has affected us all—rich and poor alike. Yet, giving attention and care to communities considered excluded, marginalised and invisible should be a priority for the state and well-to-dos.

Supermarkets are registering surging sales amid people’s quest to find a more sanitised place than kitchen markets to buy foodstuffs and household products in these times of coronavirus.

Britain was initially too slow to respond to the novel coronavirus outbreak and did not learn quickly enough from other countries, opposition Labour Party leader Keir Starmer said yesterday.

Although the government announced a special stimulus package for the country’s poor and extreme poor families recently, according to economists and researchers, it is hardly enough to feed people who are most vulnerable during the ongoing lockdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak in the country.

We are deeply saddened to hear of the death of an assistant professor of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital, who succumbed to the coronavirus at the Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka on Tuesday.

Bank employees will be entitled to a health insurance coverage of Tk 5 lakh to Tk 10 lakh if they are infected by coronavirus while delivering services to customers, according to a notice issued by Bangladesh Bank.

It is crucial that China and the United States properly manage their relations amid the coronavirus pandemic, top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi tells US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The families of each migrant worker who died from coronavirus abroad will get Tk 3 lakh as compensation from the Wage Earners’ Welfare Board (WEWB) under the expatriates’ welfare ministry.

A total of 312 Bangladeshis, including 13 cabin crew, returned to Dhaka from Saudi Arabia.

Google announces it will launch an emergency fund to help local news outlets struggling to maintain operations in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka launches 3T (test, trace and treatment) services in a bid to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.

Bangladesh Bank asks lenders not to impose any interest on credit card bills due on April 1, during the coronavirus pandemic.

A doctor and a staffer of Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital have tested Covid-19 positive, hospital sources confirm.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) on April 14 issued a statement saying the government will take legal action against factory owners if they fail to pay workers by April 16.

The number of cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide passes two million, according to a Reuters tally.

The government is setting up quarantine centres for 4,000 persons in Dhaka and some other districts around the capital for those who will be repatriated from different countries, mainly from the Middle East.