Infected with Covid-19 and later suffering a stroke, former health minister Mohammed Nasim is still in deep coma.

Covid-19 has taken away the life of another physician at Tejgaon in Dhaka.

A voluntary plasma platform – ‘Shohojoddha’ – was launched today as a joint initiative of ICT Division, Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and some other public and private organisations to facilitate the collection and distribution of plasma from patients who recovered from coronavirus.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested positive for Covid-19 on May 24, is now feeling better.

A total of 677 Bangladeshi citizens, most of whom are migrant workers, have returned from Kuwait, UAE and Maldives by three separate special flights since Monday.

BNP calls upon the government to prioritise people’s lives and livelihoods in the context of the coronavirus pandemic over economic growth in the national budget for the 2020-21 fiscal.

India’s Bharti Airtel today said its subsidiary has acquired an additional 6.3 percent stake in Bangladesh's telecom operator Robi Axiata from NTT Docomo for an undisclosed amount.

Around 244 members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party, who earlier tested positive for Covid-19, have recovered till today with a recovery rate of around 58 percent, according to an official of the force.

Road Transport and Bridges Ministry today asked Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) to cancel registration and route permits if vehicles violate health guidelines.

The High Court refuses to grant bail to Dhaka Bank's Dhanmondi branch Vice President Md Aminul Islam in connection with a case filed on charge of misappropriating Tk 22 crore.

Ranajit Kumar Roy, lawmaker from Jashore-4 constituency, has tested Covid-19 positive.

Malaysia will ask Bangladesh to take back about 300 Rohingya refugees detained after a boat carrying them entered its waters this week, the southeast Asian nation's defence minister said on Tuesday.

The total number of police personnel infected with Covid-19 across the country reaches to 6,718, according to a tally by the Police Headquarters.

A man accused in six separate cases including arms, narcotics and robbery, was killed in an alleged gunfight with police in Naogaon’s Porsha upazila this morning.

The government has asked authorities of the country’s mosques and other places of worship to disseminate messages containing information on coronavirus regularly through loudspeakers, with the aim of make people more aware of the deadly virus.

The joint commissioner who allegedly offered bribe to Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner has been transferred.

As industries in India struggle to restart operations after millions of labourers returned home, having lost their jobs amid the coronavirus outbreak, Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus has said this “reverse migration” of workers can offer fresh business opportunities for microlenders in the country.

At least seven members, including two children, of a family suffered burn injures in a fire, supposedly caused by a gas cylinder blast in Ashulia of Savar, early today.

A Police Headquarters inquiry has found an assistant sub-inspector guilty in connection with the death of a farmer in Gopalganj.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Mahabubor Rahman has tested positive for coronavirus.