Brac Urban Development Programme (UDP) today started the essential food package distribution campaign among people in two slums --- Korail in Banani and Shahidnagar in Lalbagh -- of the capital amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to extend its food support to around one lakh people of the city who have become unemployed during the 10-day shutdown to avoid spread of coronavirus.

Ten prisoners at Chattogram Central Jail have made 4,000 facemasks in the last eight days in an attempt to better protect themselves from the coronavirus.

It took nature a mere few weeks to reclaim what has always been hers. And she returned after a long time in vast stretches of the Cox’s Bazar sea beach.

An SSC examinee who had been suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last four days dies in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir underscores the need for forming a national committee to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus across the country.

A total of eight Bangladeshis die of Covid-19 in the US over the last 24 hours.

Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 51, says IEDCR.

A total of 34,000 permanent and temporary workers of 46 tea gardens in Sylhet and Habiganj have gone on strike, demanding suspension of work in order to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

Bangladeshi photojournalist A Hai Swapan dies from coronavirus in New York.

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to sharply slow growth in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as well as China, the World Bank says in an economic update.

The National Board of Revenue directs its customs offices to release industrial raw materials alongisde imported essential commodities, emergency medical equipment related products and services.

The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that started in China has now become a global health crisis which, in turn, has caused an economic crisis.

As we have said time and again in this column, echoing the directives of WHO and experts within the country and outside—we must speed up the testing process on an urgent basis, now that we are entering the fourth week since Bangladesh reported its first official Covid-19 case.

In these dark and depressing times, when we are bombarded with news of death, hardship and mismanagement of scarce resources, it is truly heartening to see that individuals and small organisations are stepping up and reaching out to those most in need of support.

A large number of dairy farmers in Pabna and Sirajganj are facing a tough time as big milk factories have drastically cut collection of the item from the famous milk producing zone during the ongoing general holidays and countrywide shutdown-like situation aimed at containing the spread of coronavirus.

Banks’ capacity to provide loans at 9 per cent interest has shrunk even before the government-fixed ceiling is implemented as both individuals and corporate institutions are withdrawing deposits to protect themselves from the ongoing economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

New York food banks have become inundated with newcomers deprived of income since the near-total halt of business in the United States’ economic capital.

An unknown fear grips Azizur Rahman every time he comes out of his home in the morning. An ambulance driver for years, Azizur feels he might contract coronavirus anytime as he has to come in contact with different patients every now and then.

After testing 153 samples, the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research yesterday reported one Covid-19 case, bringing the tally of confirmed cases to 49.