Contradicting governors and legal experts, US President has claimed “total” power to lift the nationwide coronavirus lockdown, according to international news media.

Local administration places 62 people, mostly labourers, who reached Kurigram from Dhaka’s Keraniganj, in institutional quarantine as part of measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The outgoing Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary says that keeping people in home quarantine was a “major battle” but every member of the force has been sincerely doing their part from the start.

Twenty-seven staff members including nine doctors and nine nurses of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) are quarantined.

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

The government has taken an initiative to keep the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers -- providing medical services to coronavirus patients in the designated hospitals -- at 20 hotels, including Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.

Four more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Munshiganj, raising the total number in the district to 18, according to the district’s civil surgeon.

Governments battling a virus that has crossed borders with breathtaking swiftness pinned their hopes Tuesday on tests, technology and a coordinated approach to ease the tight social-distancing restrictions that have slowed the pandemic but strangled the global economy.

A passenger launch of the Patuakhali-Dhaka route is declared a “floating isolation unit” at Patuakhali river port, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

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

A 40-year-old man dies with Covid-19 symptoms in Bandarban’s Lama upazila.

The novel coronavirus is 10 times deadlier than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization has said, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.

The three-week lockdown across India which was imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus has been extended till May 3, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces.

A 33-year-old man, who was in an isolation ward at a hospital in Chandpur with coronavirus symptoms, dies.

The three-week coronavirus-induced lockdown across India may have cost the national economy Rs 7-8 lakh crore, analysts and industry bodies say.

Babuganj Upazila Health Complex in Barishal has been locked down after three people, including a nurse, test positive for Covid-19

A physician of Savar Upazila Health Complex has tested positive for coronavirus, says the civil surgeon of Dhaka.

A union parishad chairman was arrested in Pabna and a former BCL leader was fined in Tangail for discrepancies surrounding distribution of relief rice during the coronavirus pandemic yesterday.

One person died of coronavirus infection and another tested positive for Covid-19 in Chattogram today.

D-8 nations -- Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey -- are scheduled to virtually meet on April 16 for a discussion on the novel coronavirus outbreak and to heighten cooperation between the nations.