Bangabandhu who was taken ill on July 5 now feels much better, according to the prime minister’s personal physician Prof Nurul Islam.

News agency Reuters, quoting the Italian health ministry, said: “Italy is suspending all flights from Bangladesh for one week due to a ‘significant number’ of passengers who tested positive to the coronavirus on a flight to Rome on Monday.”

The World Health Organization (WHO) is reviewing a report urging it to update guidance on the novel coronavirus after more than 200 scientists, in a letter to the health agency, outlined evidence the virus can spread in tiny airborne particles.

The government is going to recruit 2,000 more doctors to tackle the Covid-19 crisis, but the doctors are worried about the recruitment process.

Sixty-five-year-old Jobeda Khatun took shelter at a river protection dam in Kutubpur union in Bogura’s Sariakandi upazila 10 days ago.

Times were probably different back then, and Kishore had definitely made the right choice of staying back and being with his people.

Even though Bangabandhu has been advised complete rest by his personal physician enquires today about the food situation in different parts of the country from his secretariat emergency control room.

Turkey’s coast guard said yesterday it had intercepted a tanker carrying 276 migrants on their way to Greece, with video published by state media showing dozens crammed into poorly ventilated compartments.

Two men, including an alleged robber, were killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

The government has planned to import rice, if needed, by reducing import duty to keep the local market stable and prevent price manipulation.

The European Union is providing Tk 90.6 lakh (€100,000) to Bangladesh for an early anticipatory action to reduce the negative impacts of severe flooding on the most affected communities.

An arrestee died at a hospital in Chapainawabganj town on Monday night, around an hour after he allegedly tried to commit suicide at a local police station.

Australia yesterday ordered millions of people locked down in its second-biggest city to combat a surge in coronavirus cases, as nations across the planet scrambled to stop the rampaging pandemic.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday said the government would not spare anyone involved in human trafficking and money laundering.

Law enforcers detained two jute mills labour leaders from their Khulna homes early yesterday for interrogation.

India yesterday became the third-highest coronavirus caseload in the world, as officials warned hospitals in the United States were in danger of being overwhelmed by a surge in infections.

The pandemic has highlighted the importance of making South Asia’s food systems more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient, the International Food Policy Research Institute said yesterday.

At least seven people, including six of a family, were killed in a road accident in Dinajpur’s Birganj upazila yesterday afternoon.

Two alleged muggers and two suspected Rohingya drug peddlers were killed in separate “shootout” incidents in the capital and Cox’s Bazar early yesterday.

River erosion has taken a serious turn in several flood-hit districts, rendering many people homeless.