A total of 349 Bangladeshis return home after being stranded in India and Singapore due to flight suspensions amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

A man in Narayanganj reportedly flees from his house after he tested positive for coronavirus and was informed in this regard.

A ten-month-old boy of Chattogram has tested Covid-19 positive.

Officials of the counterterrorism unit yesterday arrested a suspected member of banned militant group Ansar al-Islam from Kotwali area in Dhaka.

A 38-year-old man and a police official have tested positive in Bandarban’s remote Thanchi upazila.

Thirteen people, including six healthcare professionals, have tested positive for coronavirus in Brahmanbaria district in the last 24 hours.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain will hold a meeting with Supreme Court judges tomorrow to decide about the judiciary as its functions remain halted since March 26 due to ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Seventeen police personnel of a station have been infected with coronavirus in Gopalganj, district officials have confirmed.

Government might extend the ongoing nationwide shutdown until May 5, in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus.

India has handed over Risaldar Moslehuddin, a key conspirator convicted for assassinating Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, to Bangladesh, Indian officials say.

At least two people die in Khulna and Bogura with coronavirus symptoms since yesterday evening.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Joypurhat.

Narail’s Lohagarah upazila is declared locked down after three doctors and two staffers of Lohagarah Upazila Health Complex test positive for coronavirus.

A readymade garments (RMG) worker tests positive for coronavirus in Sadar upazila of Magura, making him the first confirmed coronavirus case in the district.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih expresses his gratitude to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sending medical equipment and relief materials to his country to face the Covid-19 situation there.

Two people including a banker have tested positive for coronavirus in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia and the district town.

A local health worker of a non-government organisation has tested coronavirus positive in Mujibgangar upazila of Meherpur.

Re-excavation work of 10 canals in the district has begun recently, bringing new hope for farmers.

Over 1 lakh handloom and power loom workers, the ones that weave the famous Tangail saris, are in dire need of help after they went out of work since their factories were shuttered nearly a month ago amid the outbreak of the Novel Coronavirus.

Everything has come to a halt due to the countrywide shutdown to flatten the spread of highly contagious Covid-19.