Police have arrested a leader of Jubo League from Pabna for allegedly spreading rumours about coronavirus on social media.

Leena Leticia Biswas, 49, an intellectually-disabled woman, has been missing from her residence at Monipuripara of Farmgate area since early morning on Monday.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) will provide free transportation for doctors and medical staff in the port city so they can go to their workplaces without any hassle during the ongoing shutdown.

The government today received the patent, design and source code of making ventilators from Medtronic, an international medical device company, and can now locally manufacture local manufacturing it to better face the coronavirus outbreak.

Chhayanaut today cancelled their Pahela Baishakh celebrations scheduled to welcome Bangla New Year 1427 at Ramna Batamul due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Navana Group, one of the largest private-sector corporations of the country, is preparing a 100-bed isolated field hospital at Faujdarhat in Chattogram for treatment of coronavirus patients.

Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to extend its food support to around one lakh people of the city who have become unemployed during the 10-day shutdown to avoid spread of coronavirus.

Ten prisoners at Chattogram Central Jail have made 4,000 facemasks in the last eight days in an attempt to better protect themselves from the coronavirus.

An SSC examinee who had been suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last four days dies in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur.

Carew and Co Limited, the country’s only state-owned distillery, started making hand sanitisers in response to a growing demand for hygiene products due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Over 50 people have been injured in a clash between two groups of people over constructing a drain in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila, amid the countrywide shutdown to contain the Covid-19 spread.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir underscores the need for forming a national committee to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus across the country.

The construction of the last pier of the much-anticipated Padma Bridge is expected to be completed within today, giving a big boost to the long-delayed project.

The government is going to launch special open market sale (OMS) of coarse rice at the rate of Tk 10 per kg at all city corporation areas of the country in bid to ensure food for relatively poor people during the nationwide shutdown to curb coronavirus transmission.

The 16-year-old girl who was admitted to Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital's isolation centre in Sylhet this afternoon, died of congestive cardiac failure and Cor Pulmonale, doctors say.

Three Bangladeshis, who recently returned from Sweden, might be released from Ashkona Hajj Camp quarantine centre today as they had no symptoms of Covid-19 during their 14-day stay there.

A total of 34,000 permanent and temporary workers of 46 tea gardens in Sylhet and Habiganj have gone on strike, demanding suspension of work in order to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

Those who died from coronavirus came to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) at the last stage, the organisations’ director Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora has said.

A suspected drug dealer in Dinajpur and an alleged robber in Pabna have been killed in “gunfight” with police early today.

Five members of a family, who were kept in isolation with flu-like symptoms at Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital, have tested negative, said Dr Nadirul Aziz, superintendent of the hospital.