While some refuse to help their own family members out of fear of the coronavirus, others step up to take care of complete strangers. United under the banner of ‘Health Service Volunteers’, around 100 people took an oath recently to aid people infected with Covid-19, in Bagerhat Sadar and Kachua upazilas.

People of Dakkhin Kagojpukur village in Benapole municipality go on a self-imposed lockdown to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government will procure 21 lakh metric tons (MT) of food grains in the current season to ensure food security in the country and fair prices of farmers’ produces.

A village has been put under lockdown in Noakhali’s Sadar upazila as a 20-year-old tested positive for coronavirus.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has donated personal protective equipment (PPE) and other emergency medical supplies to the Bangladesh government to support preparedness and response in regard to the Covid-19 outbreak in Cox’s Bazar.

Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh signs an agreement with a Chinese company for construction of a new terminal at MAG Osmani International Airport in Sylhet.

Local administration announces that Chattogram’s Hathazari upazila will be locked down from Monday morning in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) arranges safe transport facilities for farm labourers who were sent from the port city to Kishoreganj to work on paddy fields to harvest Boro crops in a bid to ease the crisis of labourers amid the nationwide shutdown.

Locals of Bandarban’s Sadar upazila have brought allegations against a group of people affiliated with a resort for burning their rubber garden on Saturday, in a bid to grab their land.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) has asked the authorities concerned not to spray harmful disinfectants directly on human bodies.

Editor-in-Chief of bdnews24.com Toufique Imrose Khalidi, Jagonews24.com acting editor Mohiuddin Sarker and two others have been sued under digital security act for running reports containing “misinformation” on misappropriation of OMS rice in Thakurgaon’s Baliadangi upazila recently.

A coronavirus testing lab will be set up immediately at the Narayanganj 300-bed hospital in Khanpur to facilitate diagnosis and treatment of people suffering from flu-like symptoms and those diagnosed with coronavirus.

Non-government organisations call upon the government to engage them in tackling the crisis caused by the outbreak of coronavirus, which is having far-reaching impacts on people, health and economy, especially on the poor and vulnerable communities across the country.

Farmers in haor areas of Netrakona are finally breathing a sigh of relief after workers from outside the district joined Boro rice harvesting in four haor upazilas of the district.

Readymade garment (RMG) workers of a factory in Savar stage a demonstration demanding their due salaries.

The government forms a 17-member national technical advisory committee in a bid to tackle the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.

A transport aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) carrying medical aid to help combat the spread of Bangladesh Air Forcereturn to Dhaka from China.

Four people have died of coronavirus-like symptoms in Khulna, Khagrachhari, Noakhali and Bogura since last night.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry has suspended three Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and nine members for irregularities in distribution of relief among poor due to coronavirus outbreak.

Seven died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said.