A 30-year-old man has tested positive for coronavirus in Jamalpur, the first case in the district.

Offices, malls and educational institutions have been shut down across the country, in an effort to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Yet, many are unaware of such rigorous measures, especially social distancing. With an aim to raise awareness on the contagious virus, a group of young people from Bogura created a Facebook group, titled ‘Corona and Situation of Bogura’, last month.

Covid-19’s conquest to spread, infect, and then to claim human lives around the world has sparked many discussions on its current and future trajectory and impacts.

In a book on influenza published last year, Robert G. Webster, a virologist at Otago University in New Zealand, had a terrifyingly prescient chapter about pandemics.

To borrow a famous phrase from history, a spectre is haunting the world—the spectre of Covid-19.

We, and indeed the rest of the world, are going through unprecedented times pulverised by the onslaught of Covid-19.

The reports and visuals of thousands of garment workers coming back to Dhaka from their villages all over the country, cramming into ferries, pickups, trucks or walking on foot, are extremely concerning as such an influx and crowding of people are the perfect recipe for a rapid spread of the coronavirus.

Dhaka city has been virtually paused. Streets are almost empty, shops shuttered, restaurants closed, families cloistered at home -- all attempted to slow the spread of the new coronavirus.

President Donald Trump warned Americans to brace for a “very horrendous” number of coronavirus deaths in the coming days as the number of people infected in the US has exceeded 3,00,000 with the death toll climbing past 8,400.

If you knew that the beginning of next month, you would have no money, none at all, how badly would you try to save your job?

The authorities have said that community transmission of coronavirus is indeed happening, but it is limited to five clusters across the country.

Keeping food prices low should be seen as a strategic objective of the National Board of Revenue (NBR) during the preparation of the next national budget, the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) suggested in its budget proposal.

This is a good package committing 2.5 percent of GDP to keep businesses in industry and services afloat with a particular focus on protecting employment and labour income.

France is to begin clinical trials involving transfusions of blood plasma from coronavirus survivors into patients who have severe symptoms in a bid to treat the illness, the institutions involved said Saturday.

Singapore reported 120 new coronavirus cases yesterday, by far its highest daily rise, and quarantined nearly 20,000 migrant workers in their dormitories.

Civil society members, including economists and public health professionals, stress on a coordinated way to tackle the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the country.

India’s national airlines -- Air India -- which is ferrying European and Canadian citizens stuck in India amid nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, has garnered praise from Pakistan’s Air Traffic Controller (ATC) while flying over the country.

A 45-year-old man who died in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar is found to have been infected with coronavirus.

A 25-year-old man, whose father is the first confirmed coronavirus patient in Chattogram, also tests positive -- making him the second case in the port city.

An allegation has been raised against some healthcare providers at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) -- the only organisation in Chattogram authorised to test for coronavirus -- over demanding money for conducting the test.