Seven people are placed in home quarantine as a woman dies in Shariatpur after she was hospitalised with fever and headache.

The district Detective Branch (DB) of police have arrested UP chairman Alauddin Paltu on charges of irregularities in distributing rice allocated to fishermen under the VGF (Vulnerable Group Feeding) programme in the Kakchira union under Barguna’s Patharghata upazila.

Workers Party of Bangladesh (WPB) proposes that no job cut should take place at industries and offices in the wake of the coronavirus fallout in the country.

Islamic Foundation urges all Muslims to offer prayers on the occasion of Shab-e-Barat at their respective homes, in order to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A youth is murdered in a clash in a village under Bogura’s Shajahanpur upazila.

Two garment workers are killed and three other passengers of a CNG-run-auto rickshaw injured in a road accident at Shambhuganj Bazar area on Mymensingh-Netrakona road under Mymensingh Sadar upazila.

Thousands of people were seen coming to Dhaka from Savar, Manikganj, Barishal, Mymensingh, Gazipur and many other parts of the country amid the nationwide shutdown enforced to combat the spread of coronavirus.

The Supreme Court issues a circular saying that all temporary court orders such as those granting bail, staying case proceedings and issuing status quo will be extended for two weeks’ till reopening of the court.

Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) of Sadar Upazila in Faridpur has been feeding 11 mentally disabled people who live on the streets in the upazila town.

One person has been killed and five others injured in a clash between two groups of labourers in Brahmanbaria's Kasba upazila.

Five out of 35 Bangladeshis, who returned from India through Benapole border under special arrangement, have been sent to institutional quarantine.

Three doctors and 15 staffers including nurses and ward boys of a private hospital in Chattogram have been sent for home quarantine as they came into contact with a coronavirus patient there, said Chattogram Civil Surgeon Sheikh Fazle Rabbi.

World Bank Group President David Malpass says the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic was expected to cause a “major global recession” that would likely hit the poorest and most vulnerable countries the hardest.

Fifty-five eminent citizens and organisations today issued a joint statement demanding the government to take immediate steps, including providing food assistance and other necessary things to one crore at-risk families for at least three months, to protect citizens amid the coronavirus outbreak.

For the first time in Chattogram, a 67-year-old man tests positive for coronavirus.

The Bangladeshis stranded in India following the nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak will have to wait till the lockdown is relaxed to return, officials concerned say.

The Prime Minister's Office (PMO) refutes a report that only Army and Navy will distribute government-provided relief materials from now on.

English newspaper Daily Sun’s Patuakhali correspondent is beaten up by a group of people while he was capturing footage of a clash over the grabbing of a fish enclosure in the district’s Galachipa upazila.

Human Rights and Peace for Bangladesh (HRPB), a rights organisation, appeals to the prime minister to make a stimulus package of Tk 300 crore for junior lawyers across the country who rely on the court to function for their income.

Three houses in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila are placed under lockdown after a local man was hospitalised with coronavirus-like symptoms.