UNDP, with support from Australia, provides 5,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for urban waste cleaning workers of Dhaka North and South City, Chattogram and Narayangaj city corporations.

A senior journalist of a daily newspaper in Dhaka who died at a hospital in Uttara is found Covid-19 positive.

The government has launched a medical call centre and a hotline to be used on the instant messaging app imo for 22 lakh Bangladeshis living in Saudi Arabia.

Two ministers, four lawmakers and several other government officials today launched two programmes in Sunamganj -- paddy procurement and handover of harvesting machines -- but all seemingly forgot to follow the government instruction on physical distancing.

UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has called upon the United Nations to step up its efforts to protect civilians in Rakhine and Chin states of Myanmar, alleging ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by the Myanmar military there.

The Dhaka University (DU) authorities decide to allow only enrolled students to stay at the dormitories once the university opens.

Ride-sharing service OBHAI has launched special travel arrangements “OBHAI Sheba” to commute healthcare workers and patients to hospitals or healthcare centres amidst the current Covid-19 crisis.

As the world tackles Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls for a new kind of approach that fosters cooperation, and not isolation, among all stakeholders in an article published by the World Economic Forum.

Around 2,000 Supreme Court lawyers have applied for loans from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) as the association decided to provide interest free loans to its members in need to tackle the financial pressure during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

PepsiCo in Bangladesh, along with the global food and beverage company’s philanthropic arm, the PepsiCo Foundation, has partnered with Brac, the world’s leading NGO, to provide over 1.4 million meals to low-income and ultra-poor families impacted by coronavirus pandemic across Bangladesh.

A man suddenly falls sick and dies as he is purchasing medicine from a shop in Bhatara in Dhaka.

Chatmohar Upazila Health Complex of Pabna has been locked down after one of its health assistants (lab technician) was diagnosed with Covid-19.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines extends the suspension of all international and domestic flights till May 15 amid the global Covid-19 pandemic.

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

A police constable, who was in quarantine, died last night, and his sample tested Covid-19 positive today.

Irrfan Khan, one of the most talented Indian actors who essayed a wide variety of roles including in Mostafa Sarwar Farooqi’s “Doob”, dies in a Mumbai hospital at the age of 54.

A suspected Rohingya drug peddler is killed in a gunfight with Detective Branch (DB) of police in Ramu upazila of Cox’s Bazar.

At least 10 prison guards of Dhaka Central Jail have tested Covid-19 positive till yesterday, prison officials said.

An international meteorological organisation has accepted Bangladesh's list of 13 new names to be given to tropical cyclones that develop over the North Indian Ocean (NIO) which includes the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea.

India will be self-reliant in producing indigenous rapid tests and diagnostic kits for Covid-19 by May-end, making it possible to conduct one lakh tests a day, said the country’s Health Minister Harsh Vardhan.