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

Two police personnel who were infected with Covid-19 have died since yesterday.

US scientists hail a potential breakthrough in the coronavirus fight after a trial showed patients responding to an antiviral drug, fueling global hopes for a return to normal despite mounting deaths and abysmal economic figures.

The Indian government has hinted that the ongoing nationwide lockdown due to Covid-19 would be extended beyond May 3, but with "considerable relaxations" for people and services in many districts.

Three persons have been burnt in a fire believed to be originated from an air-conditioner explosion inside a barbershop in Dhaka’s Paltan area.

An Indian government-run institute for medical sciences and technology claims to have developed a diagnostic kit for Covid-19 which can detect the contagion in 10 minutes.

Veteran Bollywood actor Rishi Kapoor has died in a hospital in Mumbai at the age of 67 after a long battle with cancer, his brother Randhir Kapoor says.

President Donald Trump has said he believes China’s handling of the coronavirus is proof that Beijing “will do anything they can” to make him lose his re-election bid in November.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that the Tokyo Olympics cannot take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained, as the city’s governor called for an extension of the nationwide state of emergency.

A police constable of Chattogram Metropolitam Police Headquarters tests positive for coronavirus after his samples were tested at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID).

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s fiancée, Carrie Symonds, gives birth to a baby boy at a London hospital.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls on governments to systematically include migrants, irrespective of legal status, in their programmes and policies aiming to address the Covid-19 pandemic.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks on the phone to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, and discusses the regional situation in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic.

It wasn’t only an underage boy, but also his father and several others, who took part in the sensational killing of four members of a family in Gazipur. Three of the victims were also raped before murder, following which the criminals looted the house to get money for gambling and buying narcotics.

Migrant workers, tourists, students and other people stuck in different parts of India, were allowed to move to their respective destinations with certain conditions as of today.

An 80-year-old man in Rangpur returns home after recovering from Covid-19 after 14 days of treatment.

Vietnam has rejected China’s claims over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagoes in the East Sea and reasserted that both groups of islands are under Vietnam’s sovereignty.

Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

Local administration in Khagrachhari reports the first case of Covid-19 in the district.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Minister Md Tajul Islam calls upon the people concerned to remove stagnant water inside and outside buildings to destroy Aedes mosquito breeding grounds in Dhaka.