Bangladesh now ranks 8th in terms of global weekly increase in new coronavirus cases, World Health Organization said yesterday.

Since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been countless incidents across the country of medical services becoming scarce, from overwhelmed hospitals to shut-down private practices. And yet, there were hundreds of doctors and staff who remained resolute to their oath of serving patients.

Though it has been 118 days since the first Covid-19 case was detected on March 8, Bangladesh still lags behind in terms of increasing the testing facilities in comparison with the other South Asian countries.

When Rejaul Karim visited his dentist late February with problems in one of his teeth, the doctor, upon an x-ray, advised him to have the tooth extracted.

Exposed to highly contagious coronavirus, some people of the flood-hit areas in Bangladesh are now living in congested shelters and some on dykes.

Detective Branch of Police claims to have identified at least six organised syndicates that are swindling money from people by pretending to be plasma donors or cured Covid-19 patients.

Four more Chinese nationals working in a factory in Nilphamari EPZ have tested positive for coronavirus.

A virtual court in Dhaka places a caretaker of Alif Hostel on a one-day remand in a case filed over disappearing certificates and other valuables of 138 students for “not paying rent for three months” during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Around 25,000 families from five upazilas in Sirajganj are barely surviving on embankments or roads as their houses have been flooded.

A total of 40 lower court judges and 181 court staff are infected with Covid-19.

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

For the first time, India's single-day total tally of coronavirus cases reach the 20,000-mark, while the death count rose to 18,213 with 379 fresh fatalities, Indian Health Ministry data shows.

Some 200 Vietnamese citizens stranded in Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and the Maldives during the coronavirus pandemic are repatriated to Vietnam.

The number of Covid-19 patients in the country surged past the 1.5 lakh-mark as 4,019 new cases of infections were reported yesterday, so far the highest in a single day.

The committees formed by the government to help it make policy decisions to put the brakes on the pandemic have not been working properly or their recommendations were ignored.

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The Directorate General of Health Services has submitted a compliance report to the High Court saying it is monitoring whether any hospital refuses to treat patients infected with Covid-19 or not.

Anwar Khan Modern Hospital will provide treatment to district registrars, sub-registrars and their family members on a priority basis if they are infected with Covid-19.

People in Chattogram are concerned after instances of misleading Covid-19 test reports from private labs emerge there, while an expert says there is a lack of trained manpower in the private labs in port city.

Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi inaugurates a specialised hospital for people infected with coronavirus in Export Processing Zone area of Chattogram.