Switzerland has announced assistance of 2.8 million Swiss francs (Tk 25 crore) for Bangladesh for immediate response to fallouts for the coronavirus pandemic.

Suffering for 10 days with Covid-19 like symptoms, a 35-year old woman dies in Brahmanbaria town.

A six-month-old, who was put under isolation at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) with coronavirus symptoms, dies.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson is able to walk in hospital some 24 hours after leaving intensive care treatment for COVID-19, as Britain records nearly 1,000 daily deaths from the virus for the first time.

Two more persons, including a policeman, test positive for coronavirus in Shibalay and Harirampur upazilas of Manikganj.

A new study examining air samples from hospital wards with COVID-19 patients has found the virus can travel up to 13 feet (four meters) -- twice the distance current guidelines say people should leave between themselves in public.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned countries on to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus and voiced alarm it was taking hold in Africa.

Country’s overall internet bandwidth usage has increased by 11 percent in the last two weeks as users are at home during the coronavirus outbreak.

A Brac study finds that 14 percent of respondents do not have any food at home because of the countrywide shutdown in effect from March 26 to curb the spread of coronavirus.

The number of deaths linked to the novel coronavirus has reached 100,000, while the tally of cases has passed 1.6 million, according to a Reuters tally.

It is a horrifying reality that with lockdowns being enforced all around the world incidents of domestic abuse, sometimes even leading to death of the victims have increased.

Usually, April is a busy month for Nantu Mia.

Bidyanondo Foundation is a non-profit social welfare organization that has been helping the unfortunate even before the coronavirus

The Singapore government has promised food, wages, and treatment costs of Bangladeshi migrant workers who are in isolation in the country’s dormitories.

Falsehoods and rumours thrive during a crisis and even more when the crisis revolves around a threatening disease.

Several thousand Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Middle East, Italy and some Southeast Asian countries are facing acute shortage of food and other essential commodities as their income sources remained shut amid shutdown enforced by the countries to contain coronavirus spread.

South Korean officials yesterday reported 91 patients thought cleared of the new coronavirus had tested positive again.

The government yesterday ordered people not to leave home after 6:00pm and extended the ongoing shutdown until April 25 as coronavirus cases and deaths continue to rise, according to a gazette of the public administration ministry.

Six more people died of novel coronavirus yesterday, the highest in a single day since the first confirmed case was reported in the country on March 8.

If statistics from other countries are to be believed, Bangladesh is now at the shoulder of the epidemic curve, and the only direction that this can go is up.