A twelve-year-old, who was being treated at the isolation ward of Jashore General Hospital, died today.

Samples of a 45-year-old-man, who died with coronavirus-like symptoms in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila on Friday, tested negative, say officials.

Government has taken an initiative to provide food assistance to those who have lost their means of daily income, due to the ongoing 10-day shutdown.

Local authorities have locked down five houses in Chowgachha upazila of Jashore after a teenager of the area was admitted to hospital with symptoms similar to that of coronavirus infection.

Four people have been killed and two injured as a locomotive hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur.

At least 150 people of 30 families have been home-quarantined after a man died with symptoms similar to that of Covid-19 infection in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has donated Tk 12.5 crore to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund to help combat the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.

A newborn was rescued from a dumpster in Ice Factory Road area under Chattogram’s Sadarghat Police Station.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a video conference with govt officials of all 64 districts on Tuesday to coordinate the ongoing activities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has been given the permission to begin testing patients for COVID-19, alongside the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), icddr,b officials confirmed today.

US-Bangla Airlines, a private air operator of the country, will provide personal protective equipment (PPEs) to doctors, nurses and other staffers of all public and private medical college hospitals free of cost until the coronavirus outbreak is over.

A 51-year-old man suffering from cold, cough, fever and breathing problems for the past three days dies at Kushtia General Hospital.

Local authorities of Hathazari upazila in Chattogram are sending appreciation letters to recently-returned expatriates in the area, who have completed their quarantine period as per government directives.

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital has received the Polymerase Chain Reaction testing machine, known as PCR, which will be used to detect Covid-19.

Bangladeshi expatriate teachers and students in at least eight countries express concern over the rapid spread of coronavirus and call upon all people in the country to come together in fighting the pandemic.

The central bank has said clients will be permitted to settle their interbank cross cheques to enable the government and businesses to provide emergency support to people during the ongoing countrywide closure.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Mahabubar Rahman has said the food shops, bakeries and restaurants can be kept open in the port city but only on some conditions for the sake of people.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asks the officials concerned of the government to prepare a list of distressed people for providing assistance so that they can face the tough times evolved over the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Amid growing concern over the spread of coronavirus, the commerce ministry is working with field level administration and law enforcement agencies in a bid to keep supply of daily essentials and its prices in a stable state.

One more child from Tripura community dies of measles in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari.