UK International Development Secretary Anne-Marie Trevelyan has said they are strongly committed to helping Bangladesh and the Rohingya people through this devastating crisis.

Information secretary Kamrun Nahar has been infected with coronavirus.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) says it now assumes global output to shrink by 4.9%, compared with a 3% contraction predicted in April, when it used data available as widespread business lockdowns were just getting into full swing.

Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation today announced maximum 50 percent discount on accommodation in its hotels and motels in Kuakata and Cox's Bazar.

World Child Cancer (WCC), a UK-based charity organisation, has extended its helping hand to the doctors and nurses involved in cancer treatment in Bangladesh amid Covid-19.

Thirty-seven people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

The next few weeks are critical to tamping down a disturbing coronavirus surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci told Congress on Tuesday — issuing a plea for people to avoid crowds and wear masks just hours before mask-shunning President Donald Trump was set to address a crowd of his young supporters in one hot spot.

China National Biotec Group (CNBG) has won approval to run a large-scale “Phase 3” clinical trial of its novel coronavirus vaccine candidate in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the company says.

The Chinese medical team, which wrapped up its short visit to Bangladesh on Monday, has made some very important observations on Bangladesh’s

In the absence of people dedicated to prevent and control infections at hospitals, healthcare-associated infections are rising across the country, affecting the general populace and healthcare professionals alike.

Bangladesh reported 43 Covid-19 deaths, 38 males and five females, in the past 24 hours till 2:30pm yesterday, raising the death toll to 1,545 in the country.

For 50-year-old Md Mostafa and his wife, last weekend was nothing short of a nightmare. He shuttled from one hospital to another in the capital with his ailing wife Sathi Khanam, a kidney patient, only to be turned away.

A group of volunteers has arranged a 20-bed isolation centre to support the poor and helpless Covid-19 patients in Phulpur upazila of Mymensingh.

Saying that the media was badly affected by the coronavirus situation, former information minister and Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal President Hasanul Haq Inu in parliament urged the government to come forward to offer help in this regard.

A Dhaka court today placed Adib Hossain Mollah, a member of suspected human trafficking gang, on a two-day remand in a case filed for attempting to send four women to Canada with fake visas.

A bill titled Adalat Kartik Tathiya Projukti Bebohar (Use of Information Technology by Court- Bill 2020) was placed in the national parliament today to empower the country’s courts to run trial proceedings through video conferences and other digital means using information technology.

Forty-three people died from coronavirus infections, 3,412 were infected and 880 recovered in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Saudi Arabia has announced to hold the Hajj this year with a “very limited number of pilgrims of various nationalities who already reside in the kingdom” as the country moves to curb the coronavirus pandemic.

While Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman University Vice-Chancellor Prof Kanak Kanti Barua verbally spurned the Rapid Dot-Blot test developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra last Wednesday, calling it “ineffective in detecting Covid-19”, the full report justifies and recommends its use as an antibody test.

As the number of Covid-19 deaths crossed the 1,500 mark yesterday, experts said transmission may not decrease anytime soon unless it is actively controlled.