Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and Khulna Medical College Hospital yesterday received polymerase chain reaction machines that will be used to test for Covid-19.

Following the declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, the global community has faced the insurmountable task of addressing the rising burden of disease.

The government is likely to extend the ongoing shutdown for at least a week as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

All around the world, the numbers are climbing. Each day registers thousands of new cases and lives lost. In Europe, now the epicenter of the pandemic, governments know that the worst is yet to come and are implementing increasingly restrictive measures to enforce social distancing and isolation.

As the coronavirus gains a foothold in the country, the increasing vulnerability of millions of orphaned and destitute children remains largely unaddressed.

The tea workers of Shamshernagar Tea Garden in Kamalganj upazila, Moulvibazar, took matters into their own hands in defiance of the garden management and stopped work from March 27.

The coronavirus disease (Covid-19) that started in China has now become a global health crisis which, in turn, has caused an economic crisis.

As we have said time and again in this column, echoing the directives of WHO and experts within the country and outside—we must speed up the testing process on an urgent basis, now that we are entering the fourth week since Bangladesh reported its first official Covid-19 case.

Local and national NGOs, civil society groups and journalists call upon the government to launch a wide-range of awareness campaigns on coronavirus in the Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar and lift the restrictions on using mobile phones and internet and resume 4G facilities at the camps in Ukhiya and Teknaf.

At least 89 Bangladeshis with valid passports return home from India through Bhomra Land Port in Satkhira.

Owners of an eco-resort in Gazipur volunteere their premises to be used as an isolation centre for people on institutional quarantine or those diagnosed with coronavirus.

Nine Bangladeshis, who returned from the UK, are sent to institutional quarantine as they all had high fevers.

Police Headquarters calls upon all not to spread misleading information and rumours against police as it is demotivating the officials who are working for the welfare of the country amid the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 269 US citizens leaves Dhaka on a special flight arranged by the US government for those who opted to return home on their personal choice amid the outbreak of COVID-19.

The UK High Commission in Dhaka advises British citizens currently living in Bangladesh to be prepared to stay in the country until commercial flights resume.

Police in western India fire tear gas to disperse a stone-pelting crowd of migrant workers defying a three-week lockdown against the coronavirus that has left hundreds of thousands of poor without jobs and hungry.

Chandpur district police officials today urged everyone distributing relief among those in need to make sure standards of physical distancing are being maintained to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Sexagenarian Husne Ara Begum was struggling to take her pregnant daughter to a hospital in Chattogram city in the wee hours today. There was no traffic jam on the road, but there was no possibility to get a vehicle at that time either as the 10-day shutdown is on in the port city like other parts of the country due to the coronavirus pandemic. She had to take her daughter to the hospital at any cost and as soon as possible. Finding no other way, Husne Ara finally decided to call police around 12:00 am, seeking help for her daughter.

Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, President Donald Trump extends restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public-health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding coronavirus pandemic.

Samples of a 45-year-old-man, who died with coronavirus-like symptoms in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila on Friday, tested negative, say officials.