Bangladesh got a little break from the doom and gloom of the coronavirus pandemic yesterday when Johnson Controls – Hitachi Air Conditioning in Tokyo launched its made-in-Bangladesh IoT application-based airCloud Pro device, which manages large cooling and heating systems remotely.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has extended the ongoing closure for all courts across the country including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court till May 30.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurates the newly constructed isolated building to treat Covid-19 patients at Anwar Khan Modern Medical College Hospital in Dhaka.

Workers of a garment factory today blocked Mohakhali-Banani road in Dhaka demanding payment of last month’s salaries.

It is important for nations to work together and do as much as possible to make the world healthier and free from Covid-19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted today, responding to US President Donald Trump who said his country would donate ventilators to India in the fight against the pandemic.

At least 241 police personnel have been infected across the country in the last 24 hours, making the total jump to 2382, according to a tally of the Police Headquarters.

A mobile court comes under attack in Monirampur upazila of Jashore while conducting a drive to enforce health guidelines to prevent the spread of coronavirus infections.

Police recover the bodies of a couple and their one and a half year old daughter from their house in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur.

A special flight carrying 242 Bangladesh citizens who were stranded in the US amid the coronavirus pandemic has departed for Bangladesh from Washington Dulles International Airport.

Sixteen people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Five nurses of Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH) have tested positive with coronavirus.

Maritime ports of Chattogram, Cox's Bazar, Mongla and Payra are advised to keep hoisted distant cautionary signal no. one (r) one as the depression over southeast Bay and adjoining Andaman sea moved slightly west-northwestwards and is likely to intensify.

An alleged criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Three days into the death of Dr Abul Mokarim Md Mohsin Uddin with Covid-19 infection, his niece who used to live with the family in Dhaka's Dhanmondi, has lost the battle with the virus.

The coronavirus pandemic has abruptly stalled city life. There is no public transport on the roads and people only travel for emergencies. But during the pandemic, many parents with children suffering from thalassemia are spending stressful days. They will have to survive the pandemic, collect blood for their sick child, and will have to go to the hospital for blood transfusion.

World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that Covid-19 threatens to reverse development gains made by Bangladesh in the last 50 years and has appealed for $320 million to help the most vulnerable.

A government watchdog fired suddenly by Donald Trump was investigating Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, says a Democratic lawmaker who accuses the president of committing a potentially illegal act of retribution.

At least 24 workers are killed and many others injured as a truck carrying them collided with another truck in India’s Uttar Pradesh.

A 55-year-old man died from coronavirus-like symptoms at his home of Vedorganj upazila in Shariatpur.

Doctors for Health and Environment (DHEn) urges Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to involve all the country’s public and private healthcare facilities and doctors in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.