The rapid spread of coronavirus in Bangladesh has shattered traders’ hopes of a sales bonanza of hilsha fish marking the celebration of Pahela Baishakh, the first day of the Bangla new year.

If the current containment strategy fails, the country will enter stage-4 of the coronavirus outbreak and then the strategy will be to mitigate the impact, health officials said.

The country continues to see a steady uptick in coronavirus cases as the authorities reported three more deaths and 54 new cases yesterday.

A group of people have come forward to provide funeral services and bury the bodies of those who died of Covid-19, while many graveyard committees have been reluctant to do so.

At least 83,568 people have died around the world in 192 countries since the virus emerged in China in December, according to a JHU tally at 1300 GMT.

Beginning in Decem-ber in China’s Wuhan City, the highly infectious COVID-19 has crossed boundaries and oceans with supersonic speed.

As the impact of the coronavirus outbreak on Bangladesh economy is becoming apparent in many ways, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina announced a second stimulus package for the affected sectors on April 5, 2020.

As the number of Covid-19 patients increases every day in the country, with 20 deaths and 218 confirmed cases reported by the IEDCR as of yesterday, the government just has no other option but to be well-prepared to cope with the situation that may arise in the coming days.

In a speech to public representatives and officials, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina gave strict guidelines to doctors regarding patient care, reminding them of their duty to provide healthcare, whatever the scenario.

During the days of quarantine, people get a huge amount of time to spend inside the house with their nearest and dearest ones.

A 34-year-old pharmacist at Madarganj Upazila Health Complex in Jamalpur tests positive for coronavirus, the second such case in the district.

Authorities place Lalmonirhat district under lockdown until further notice in a bid to contain spread of the novel coronavirus.

Police locked down a slum in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area today after a resident tested positive for coronavirus.

India’s Supreme Court orders that Covid-19 tests in approved government or private laboratories should be conducted free of cost.

Six houses of Tabligh Jamaat members who returned to Dhaka’s Savar from Sylhet are placed under lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The local administration in Rangpur has locked down 10 houses in Khandakar Para village in Mithapukur upazila’s Balarhat union, after a student there tested positive for coronavirus today.

People of low-income groups, including daily wage earners, formed an hour-long human chain at Chowrangi intersection in Panchagarh town on Panchagarh-Dhaka highway this afternoon, demanding relief material immediately.

Narsingdi district will be put under lockdown from tomorrow to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

She is a cardiac patient. Yet, this 35-year-old doctor did not evade her duties -- knowing the added risks -- during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. She continues to work at Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital.

Two people suffering from respiratory illness die in Brahmanbaria.