Journalist Saifuddin Sabuj, a prominent community radio personality in Bangladesh, passes away at a hospital in Dhaka.

Twenty-seven staff members including nine doctors and nine nurses of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) are quarantined.

Police today arrested a teenager for sexually harassing female operators of different national hotlines, including IEDCR’s, from Fulbaria area in Kushtia municipality.

Two alleged robbers are killed in “gunfight” with Rab in Munshiganj’s Sreenagar upazila.

A woman suspected to be showing symptoms of coronavirus was left behind in a forest in Tangail’s Shakhipur upazila allegedly by her family members yesterday evening.

Around 100 doctors and healthcare workers have been infected with coronavirus so far in the country, according to a tally of Bangladesh Doctors Foundation.

The government has taken an initiative to keep the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers -- providing medical services to coronavirus patients in the designated hospitals -- at 20 hotels, including Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.

Four more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Munshiganj, raising the total number in the district to 18, according to the district’s civil surgeon.

Nilphamari district has been locked down to prevent further spread of Covid-19 transmission.

A passenger launch of the Patuakhali-Dhaka route is declared a “floating isolation unit” at Patuakhali river port, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Bidyanondo Foundation, a non-profit social welfare organisation, distributed food among 500 tea workers’ families in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj, who had been languishing since authorities shut down the tea garden following a clash with them on March 5.

A 33-year-old man, who was in an isolation ward at a hospital in Chandpur with coronavirus symptoms, dies.

Rajshahi district has been brought under lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Babuganj Upazila Health Complex in Barishal has been locked down after three people, including a nurse, test positive for Covid-19

A physician of Savar Upazila Health Complex has tested positive for coronavirus, says the civil surgeon of Dhaka.

A union parishad chairman was arrested in Pabna and a former BCL leader was fined in Tangail for discrepancies surrounding distribution of relief rice during the coronavirus pandemic yesterday.

Three rights platforms for the garment sector in a joint statement expressed concern over the termination of 10,000 workers from different garment factories following the coronavirus outbreak.

D-8 nations -- Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Pakistan and Turkey -- are scheduled to virtually meet on April 16 for a discussion on the novel coronavirus outbreak and to heighten cooperation between the nations.

Outgoing Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary has been appointed as Bangladeshi ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

At least 44 people became victims of “extrajudicial killings” during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the country, according to a report prepared by seven eminent citizens of the country.