Local tech company Walton has started manufacturing protective equipment including face shields and safety goggles for the first time in the country to ensure the safety of doctors and healthcare workers during the coronavirus pandemic.

Lakshmipur district is going to be put under lockdown from tomorrow morning to combat the spread of coronavirus.

The authorities of Rajshahi University and Chittagong University extend the suspension of all classes, examinations and administrative activities until further notice due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Four more have died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, bringing the country's total death toll to 34, IEDCR says.

A dentist with covid-19 symptoms died in Dhaka this morning.

A woman in Sunamganj tests positive for coronavirus, making it the first confirmed case in the district.

Apart from hospitals, four public universities of the country can conduct Covid-19 test as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machines have been installed in their labs.

The three-day celebrations for Biju, the biggest festival of the ethnic minority communities of the Chattogram Hill Tracks that started today, is on hold this year due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced a new stimulus package of Tk 5,000 crore to provide financial assistance to farmers in rural areas for boosting agricultural production facing the fallout of Covid-19.

The United States recorded 1,920 deaths related to the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University as of 8:30 pm Saturday (0030 GMT Sunday).

The regional economic growth in eight South Asian countries, including Bangladesh, is likely to be between 1.8 and 2.8 percent in 2020, down from 6.3 percent projected six months ago, amid the fallout triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic, the World Bank says in its twice-a-year-regional update.

The Rapid Action Battalion seizes 168 sacks of rice, weighing 8,400 kg, meant for open market sales (OMS) from a house and warehouse of a local Awami League leader in Nandigram upazila of Bogura.

There seems to be finally some light at the end of the tunnel for the agriculture sector as the central bank and agriculture ministry have finalised a Tk 5,000 crore rescue package for farmers, rice millers, producers of all agro-products and owners of dairy farms.

Since April 1, Farhana Nazira is having trouble sleeping.

The streets of Dhaka have been deserted by humans, but one thing has remained constant there even during the shutdown. The city’s resident strays are still roaming the streets, some scampering about by themselves, some sprinting in groups.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned countries to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus as global death toll from the pandemic soar passed 100,000.

We commend the government for its plan to offer cash aid to the 34 lakh poor families who have been hard-hit by the ongoing shutdown due to the Covid-19 outbreak across the country.

In the United States and Europe, a handful of clinical trials have begun to test ways to keep healthcare workers and other vulnerable people safe from coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

Are we doing enough to support households dependent on labour income from the formal and informal sectors in this time of distress?

Only 9 per cent garment factories pay wages to workers through mobile financial services (MFS) and 4 per cent through banks, according to a new study, whose findings may make it difficult for the country to digitally pay 4.1 million apparel workers overnight.