UK-based fair trade watchdog Traidcraft Exchange asks fashion brands and retailers to honour their contracts as they continued to cancel those or stop payments to suppliers from “poorer countries” including Bangladesh over the Covid-19 outbreak.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has launched a cyber-verification cell to tackle the ongoing spread of misinformation centring the coronavirus pandemic.

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) introduces two hotlines to aid in sending relief materials to poor people in the city area amid the coronavirus situation in the country.

Bangladesh has decided to bring back undocumented migrants as requested by some countries, once the shutdown over coronavirus ends.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) initiates one-way movement in recognised kitchen markets in the capital to curb the spread of coronavirus, with shoppers now being asked to enter one way and exit another.

Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College will begin testing coronavirus samples next week as it has received the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine.

Chandpur district has been put under lockdown for an indefinite period from today to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Police Headquarters (PHQ) has asked all the field officials to take care of themselves and their family members along with ensuring safety and security of the countrymen during the coronavirus pandemic.

A 25-year-old man with coronavirus-like symptoms has fled from the isolation unit of the 250-bed Pabna Medical College Hospital.

One more died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, The Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

The fallout from the coronavirus spread that has killed more than 83,000 people and wreaked havoc on economies around the world could push around half a billion people into poverty, Oxfam said on Thursday.

Authorities of Dhaka University have made an announcement saying that all classes and examinations will remain suspended until further notice due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson remains in a stable and improving condition in intensive care, his culture minister says.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says that now was not the time to assess the global response to the coronavirus pandemic, calling instead for the international community to focus on working in solidarity to stop the virus.

US researchers opens another safety test of an experimental COVID-19 vaccine, this one using a skin-deep shot instead of the usual deeper jab.

Three more people test positive for coronavirus in Chattogram.

The Directorate General of Health Services announces that the Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital in Khanpur area of Narayanganj city will be used to provide treatment to patients diagnosed with coronavirus (Covid-19).

On top of the coronavirus crisis and the feared economic aftershock, Bangladesh is now facing pressure from different countries to take back undocumented Bangladeshis working there.

Coronavirus, which initially started in China, has now spread all over the world. It is now affecting 203 countries and territories around the world.

The coronavirus pandemic is battering the world’s major economies and could trigger the deepest global recession in generations, experts warned yesterday, as rising death tolls in Europe and the US dampened hopes for a quick turnaround.