Whether a patient is infected with Covid-19 or not, no hospital in Sylhet will refuse them treatment, said Private Hospital and Diagnostic Centre Owners Association yesterday.

Allocating adequate budget to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in the upcoming national budget should be a key priority to prevent and control Covid-19, said experts yesterday.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das is likely to be shifted, a year and a half after appointment. She is likely to be given either new responsibilities in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs headquarters in South Block or given another diplomatic assignment outside India, sources said.

Magistrates across the country can now virtually hold hearings on remand prayers of accused without physical presence in courts.

East Rajabazar area of Dhaka will be locked down as a red zone from Tuesday night to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A 10-member Chinese medical team with expertise in treating Covid-19 patients reached Dhaka.

Doctors will carry out “brain stem function” test on Awami League Leader Mohammed Nasim to take final decision on whether they will remove his life support system.

The High Court has stayed a lower court order that granted bail to Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza -- which collapsed killing at least 1,135 people in April, 2013 -- in a corruption case.

A group of drug peddlers allegedly attacked members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during the seizure of phensidyl bottles from Daulatpur frontier earlier today.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan had laundered at least Tk 8.5 crore in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, according to a primary investigation conducted by Criminal Investigation Department.

Another doctor who was infected with Covid-19 has died at a hospital in Dhaka.

Fourteen retired and three serving members of the army died of Covid-19 so far, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate said yesterday.

Rajshahi division recorded its highest number of Covid-19 patients yesterday, a number that has more than doubled since the previous days.

Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested 13 members of a fraud gang, who had misappropriated more than Tk 1 crore from mobile banking users in the last two months.

Many Bangladeshi migrant workers are going through a tough time in Iraq due to the shutdown enforced in the country.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday inaugurated their yearlong anti-mosquito drives at Nababganj park in Lalbagh, with an aim to bring the whole mosquito control activities under a system and eradicate mosquitoes, including Aedes.

A masterplan is in the offing to bring the capital under planned forestation.

NGOs and civil society groups have demanded that the government take up a long-term plan and involve the NGOs in tackling novel coronavirus that is likely to stay for long and heavily impact the lives and livelihood of people.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday donated Tk 10 crore to the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP) to continue its healthcare and other services.

With deaths due to Covid-19 rising in Chattogram, bereaved families are facing yet another grim reality -- not being able to bury their loved ones with full rituals due to the fear of exposing themselves to the virus. In many cases, families and community members have not been able to attend the funeral prayers either because of physical distancing measures or due to fear of the infection.