The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths accelerated past 55,000 yesterday as the United States, Spain and Britain grappled with their highest tolls yet and the world economy took a massive hit.

Google says it will publish users’ location data around the world to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures, brought in to stem the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic is set to deal a heavy blow to the country’s overseas job market and the remittance flow as a large number of Bangladeshi migrants have already lost their jobs or were receiving low wages amid shutdowns enforced to stem the spread of the virus, say economists and researchers.

I work as a consultant anaesthetist and intensivist in a small district general hospital in north-west England.

Too little money, too much screen time, and uneven distribution of household chores and childcare—a recipe made in hell.

Plagues, pandemics, floods and blights, we were once taught, are vehicles of retribution, weeding out those who have not prepared for divine wrath—the greedy, reckless, and arrogant.

While the PM’s Tk 5,000 crore stimulus package for export-oriented industries and government efforts to address the wage and food insecurity of people have been reassuring, especially with the entire country under partial lockdown, we are realising all too well that the present crisis and the measures taken to combat it will have far-reaching effects on practically every sector of the country.

It was a depressing Tuesday for Kanchan. For breakfast she had leftover rice from the previous night, and did not eat a single morsel till dusk. She then prepared a meal for that night and the next day, calculating and measuring so she has enough food for the days to come.

The life of visually-impaired Nizamul was already quite difficult, as his meagre income from his roadside insecticide shop in the city’s Bhasantek could barely provide for his wife and three children.

Five more people tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the country’s total to 61, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

For the first time in Chattogram, a 67-year-old man tests positive for coronavirus.

The Bangladeshis stranded in India following the nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak will have to wait till the lockdown is relaxed to return, officials concerned say.

The English Premier League is suspended indefinitely following a meeting of the 20 soccer clubs where a series of financial measures were discussed amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Three houses in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila are placed under lockdown after a local man was hospitalised with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern over patients being denied treatment in many hospitals of the country due to coronavirus fears.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says a vested quarter is spreading rumours on social media to mislead people over the coronavirus issue and party men must be alert to curb those.

Around 0.2 per cent to 0.4 per cent of Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate may be lost due to Covid-19 outbreak, forecasts Asian Development Bank.

A 35-year-old man who died at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital on March 31, tested negative for coronavirus from the samples collected by IEDCR.

Five more people have tested positive for coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed cases to 61, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the people to visit physicians if they experience any symptom of coronavirus and not to pay heed to any rumour about the virus as she issues a 31-point directive in view of the Covid-19 outbreak.