The coronavirus crisis continues to engulf the country as well as the rest of the world. A large number of doctors in Bangladesh (62 as of July 5)—mostly senior clinicians working on the front line—have died due to Covid-19.

Covid-19, caused by the novel coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2, has led to a pandemic that is increasing the burden of mortality and morbidities throughout the world.

The Bangladesh Society of Medicine (BSM) has found effectiveness of Favipiravir as a clinically proven drug for the treatment of Covid-19 patient.

The government decision to impose fees on Covid-19 testing is “discriminatory”, “inhuman”, and “suicidal” during a rise in the positive cases, Transparency International Bangladesh said yesterday.

While the entire month of June saw the infection rate hover between 21 and 23 percent, July sees no improvement.

The fake Covid-19 tests have not only posed a risk to public health but also put the Bangladeshi expatriates in trouble.

The health services division of the health ministry knew that Regent Hospital’s licence had expired years ago but it still went ahead and signed a deal in early March for treating Covid-19 patients there.

A senior officer of Janata Bank’s Soptopati Branch in Bogura died of Covid-19 today.

A new $7 million food assistance project has been launched to help poor households in Dhaka at high risk of Covid-19.

Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked health minister Obadiah Moyo with immediate effect for inappropriate conduct, according to a statement from the presidency shared by information ministry secretary Nick Mangwana on Twitter.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has said a strict lockdown will go in force for a week in expanded containment zones across nine districts of the region which have a high number of coronavirus cases following a sharp spike in reported cases.

The Mirpur branch of Regent Hospital was sealed off by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today on charges of its management issuing fake Covid-19 test certificates and charging money to treat coronavirus patients despite agreeing to do it for free.

Nafisa Anjum Khan, in a CNG autorickshaw loaded with various foodstuffs and daily essentials, goes about the city looking for those who don’t have food at home.

Forty-six people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

Yesterday, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) directed the authorities of Regent Hospital to shut down their Uttara and Mirpur branches after a mobile court found discrepancies and sealed off the head office and Uttara branch of the private hospital.

During the pandemic, forced return of migrants has become a major issue of concern for intergovernmental bodies and the global civil society engaged in migration issues.

New figures released by Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA) have once again put the spotlight on the harsh toll that the Covid-19 pandemic is

The Covid-19 outbreak may prolong for the next several years as the country is not taking scientific measures to control it, said a public health expert.

More than five lakh Covid-19 testing kits have been lying in the warehouses of several companies in the capital for the last couple of months.

The World Health Organization acknowledges “evidence emerging” of the airborne spread of the novel coronavirus, after a group of scientists urged the global body to update its guidance on how the respiratory disease passes between people.