Jamuna Future Park mall in Dhaka will remain closed until the Covid-19 situation improves in the country. Bashundhara City Shopping Complex, also, will not open before the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr, despite the government allowing all markets to open from May 10.

Some 135 Bangladeshis, who returned from India today through Benapole border in Jashore, have been sent to institutional quarantine to prevent the spread of Covid-19.

The government has given conditional permission to reopen mosques for all from tomorrow.

Some 4,249 women faced different forms of domestic violence in April this year during the nationwide shutdown induced by the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey conducted by Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF).

A Supreme Court lawyer sends a legal notice to the health secretary and the director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, requesting them to take necessary steps in five days to set up Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) laboratories in every district of the country in order to quickly complete Covid-19 tests.

Three more die, 790 test positive for Covid-19 in 24 hours, says Directorate General of Health Services. Meanwhile, no new patients recovered.

Three alleged robbers, including a pair of siblings, are killed in a “four-hour long gunfight” with police in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

Another police personnel infected with Covid-19 has died at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.

Awami League MP Habibur Rahman Mollah dies at a hospital in Dhaka at the age of 78.

Rapid Action Battalion arrests cartoonist Ahmed Kabir Kishore, writer Mushtaq Ahmed, and two others -- Didarul Islam Bhuiyan, an activist of a platform called ‘Rashtrachinta’, and Minhaz Mannan Emon, a businessman -- under the Digital Security Act, allegedly for making anti-government posts on Facebook, from the capital.

Eight health staffers, including three doctors and two nurses, of Moulvibazar Sadar Hospital have tested positive for Covid-19.

The White House coronavirus task force will wind down as the country moves into a second phase that focuses on the aftermath of the outbreak, President Donald Trump says.

Chinese youngsters in the global virus epicentre of Wuhan file back to class, wearing masks and walking in single file past thermal scanners.

The government has taken an initiative to bring back Bangladeshis stranded in the United States amid the coronavirus pandemic in a chartered flight either on May 14 or 15.

In the steepest spike witnessed so far, India has recorded 195 deaths, 3,900 cases of Coronavirus in the past 24 hours, taking total fatalities to 1,568 and number of infections to 46,433, according to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare.

Five more staffers of Sylhet Shahid Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital test positive for coronavirus after a storekeeper of the hospital was found Covid-19 positive on April 22.

Britain's death toll from the coronavirus has topped 32,000, according to an updated official count released on Tuesday, pushing the country past Italy to become the second-most impacted after the United States.

The national technical advisory committee on Covid-19 recommends reconsidering the government's decision of reopening shopping malls and other businesses, saying such a move could lead to further transmission of the deadly coronavirus.

India chooses to name their home-developed Covid-19 test kit after Satyajit Ray’s immortal fictional character ‘Feluda’.

Expatriates' Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Imran Ahmad says the government is in continual talks with ministers of different countries which employ migrant workers from Bangladesh regarding protection of the workers amidst the Covid-19 outbreak and keeping their labour market intact post the pandemic.