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People in the Bandarban Hill Tracts are imposing community-wide isolation to prevent spread of coronavirus.

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s lawyer Advocate Sanaullah Miah died at a hospital in Dhaka today.

Officer-in-charge (OC) of Amtali Police Station has been withdrawn following the death of a 55-year-old man at the police station in Barguna.

Khulna Medical College Hospital is going to receive a PCR machine for conducting tests for coronavirus (Covid-19).

Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) today complained that the workers of different internet service providers have been physically assaulted by members of law enforcement agencies at different places across the country over the last two days.

Rajshahi City Corporation has decided to distribute food grains among 20,000 daily wage earners of the city to help them survive the ongoing 10-day shutdown to avoid the spread of coronavirus.

A couple in Kutubdia upazila of Cox’s Bazar is placed in institutional quarantine after they returned from India.

The law enforcers in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila place residents of three buildings in isolation after a youth, who had been running a fever and was vomiting, died in an apartment of one of the buildings last night.

Amid mounting concern of the spread of coronavirus, British High Commission in Dhaka advises UK citizens to leave Bangladesh using Biman Bangladesh Airlines flights that are still operating on the Dhaka-London and Dhaka-Manchester routes.

The European Union welcomes the release of Begum Khaleda Zia, chairperson of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, on March 25.

Asad Haider, a resident in the port city’s Rahattar Pool area, has been suffering from peptic ulcer for a long time. He was prescribed medicines for three months. One of the medicines he has to take is Sergel (Esomeprazole 20mg).

A 16-year-old is stabbed to death in Burichang upazila of Cumilla.

A seven-month-old baby is killed and four others of a family are injured in an explosion in Narayanganj city.

Against the backdrop of a 10-day shutdown that began yesterday, according to Satkhira police, two groups of criminals exchanged fire in Sadar upazila around 2:00am today.

Pabna’s Chatmohar upazila administration has put Katakhali village under Dathia Bamongram union under lockdown on Thursday night, due to the rush of returnees from different districts -- mostly from Madaripur -- over the last couple of days.

The machine for Polymerase Chain Reaction testing, known as PCR, has reached the laboratory of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday evening and will be used for detection of the COVID-19 coronavirus.

A man was stabbed to death by some unruly youths allegedly on suspicion of stealing a mobile phone in Charbhadrasan upazila on Wednesday night.

A group of youths allegedly led by an extortionist injured three daughters of late language fighter Layla Begum at Chandkathi Choumatha in Jhalakathi town on Wednesday night as the home residents declined to meet their demand.

More than 1000 tea workers’ families have been living a miserable life since the authorities shut Rema tea garden in Habiganj’s Chunarughat upazila following a clash with tea workers on March 5.