UK-based fair trade watchdog Traidcraft Exchange asks fashion brands and retailers to honour their contracts as they continued to cancel those or stop payments to suppliers from “poorer countries” including Bangladesh over the Covid-19 outbreak.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has launched a cyber-verification cell to tackle the ongoing spread of misinformation centring the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh Coast Guard Deputy Director General Commodore M Shahjahan has been promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral.

Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College will begin testing coronavirus samples next week as it has received the Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine.

Chandpur district has been put under lockdown for an indefinite period from today to prevent the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.

The Police Headquarters (PHQ) has asked all the field officials to take care of themselves and their family members along with ensuring safety and security of the countrymen during the coronavirus pandemic.

A 40-year-old woman, who returned from Narayanganj recently, has died of coronavirus-like symptoms in Akhaura of Brahmanbaria.

Authorities of Dhaka University have made an announcement saying that all classes and examinations will remain suspended until further notice due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

The newly appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed has refused to receive tokens of greetings, such as sweets and flowers, from well-wishers as the country is going through a critical time due to coronavirus pandemic.

President Abdul Hamid has rejected mercy petition of Capt Abdul Majed, a death row convict in a case filed over the assassination of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members, Law Minister Anisul Huq says.

Police seize 21 sacks of relief rice weighing 630 kilogrammes and another 2,000 empty sacks bearing the seal of food department from two warehouses in Chattogram city.

Three more people test positive for coronavirus in Chattogram.

The Directorate General of Health Services announces that the Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital in Khanpur area of Narayanganj city will be used to provide treatment to patients diagnosed with coronavirus (Covid-19).

A 34-year-old pharmacist at Madarganj Upazila Health Complex in Jamalpur tests positive for coronavirus, the second such case in the district.

Authorities place Lalmonirhat district under lockdown until further notice in a bid to contain spread of the novel coronavirus.

The local administration distributes government relief to the remote Kapru Para of Bandarban’s Lama upazila after The Daily Star ran a report on the matter titled “Acute food crisis hits village in Bandarban”.

The authorities concerned of the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) in Sylhet announce that it will be closed on the day of Shab-e-Barat (Thursday) and Friday to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Six houses of Tabligh Jamaat members who returned to Dhaka’s Savar from Sylhet are placed under lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The local administration in Rangpur has locked down 10 houses in Khandakar Para village in Mithapukur upazila’s Balarhat union, after a student there tested positive for coronavirus today.

People of low-income groups, including daily wage earners, formed an hour-long human chain at Chowrangi intersection in Panchagarh town on Panchagarh-Dhaka highway this afternoon, demanding relief material immediately.