The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) imposes the highest alert at different areas along the Bangladesh-India border in Jashore’s Benapole to prevent suspected coronavirus-infected people from trespassing into Bangladesh side.

The suburb of Jackson Heights is known to have one the largest Bangladeshi populations in the United States. The local mosque, called the Jackson Heights Islamic Center, is a focal point for many in the community, especially for a large number of taxi drivers. It has now become a support centre helping allay fears around the novel coronavirus.

A US-based lab unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has Covid-19 in as little as five minutes, it says in a statement.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $300,000 emergency grant yesterday to support the Bangladesh government’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Four more people who had tested positive with coronavirus, have fully recovered, taking the recovery number to 15 so far, IEDCR said today.

At least 10 Bangladeshis died in New York till Friday as coronavirus cases surge in the United States, according to local journalists.

President Donald Trump signs $2 trillion rescue plan to salvage a US economy crippled by the novel coronavirus, on a day the nation recorded more than 100,000 confirmed cases of virus infections.

The United States now has nearly 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and there have been 1,475 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.

Italy records 919 deaths from coronavirus in a single day, the highest daily toll anywhere in the world, while the number of confirmed cases eclipses the total in China where the virus first emerged.

Asad Haider, a resident of port city’s Rahattar Pool area, has been suffering from peptic ulcer for a long time. He was prescribed medicines for three months. One of the medicine he has to take is Sergel (Esomeprazole 20mg).

Days before the nation started to panic over the crisis of personal protective equipment (PPE) for medical professionals and sufficient resources for infected patients, a private medical college hospital in Sylhet was prepared.

A large number of foreigners are leaving Bangladesh as the government has put the country on a 10-day shutdown since Thursday to prevent contagious spread of coronavirus.

The government yesterday said the factories making protective equipment against coronavirus or working on previous orders can remain open.

People need to have strong mental connection with each other at this time of social distancing, said a noted physiatrist while talking about fighting coronavirus.

Ignatius Rozario, a Bangladeshi living in Milan, is acutely depressed. The 45-year-old man who always likes to dress up and look sharp now has a black-and-grey beard after staying home for two weeks amid Italy’s countrywide lockdown.

We condemn the official who issued it, commend the one who withdrew it and ask the question why was it necessary?

The Great Depression of the 1930s left its mark on every society and changed the way we think about life.

Anwara Begum was seeking alms sitting in front of her shanty at the capital’s Bhashantek slum with the summer sun dipping towards the horizon yesterday.

What will the impact of Covid-19 be on the Bangladesh economy? Overall, it seems inevitable that the GDP gains that were expected to be realised in the current fiscal year are likely to be wiped out.

Patients with fever are thronging hospitals and diagnostic centres on a daily basis, especially as fear has gripped the nation while more and more people continue to show symptoms of Covid-19.