Two children and a teenage boy die of Covid-19 like symptoms in Kurigram and Jhenidah.

Five people -- including one child -- died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says in a briefing.

The British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson today announced five more charter flights from Dhaka to London for British tourists, short term visitors and their direct dependents to return to the UK.

India’s battle against Covid-19 pandemic has become “a people-driven movement” as they are rising to the occasion to help each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

At least 14 tin-roofed shops were gutted at Kutupalang Rohingya refugee camp in Ukhia upazila of Cox's Bazar early today.

An 80-year-old man, who tested positive for coronavirus, dies at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH).

After a month of shutdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, eight state-run jute mills in the Khulna-Jashore industrial belt partially have resumed activities.

Three passengers of a battery-run auto-rickshaw are killed and five others injured as a truck rammed into the vehicle on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in Rangpur.

The United States recorded 2,494 more coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures reported Saturday night by Johns Hopkins University.

The Iskcon Temple in Dhaka’s Swamibagh has been placed under lockdown in adherence with directives from the IEDCR, police say.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private sector adviser Salman F Rahman says the country’s export-oriented factories must begin to open slowly and by maintaining necessary health protocols in order to save the economy.

Twenty-six former and current ambassadors to the UN, including Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, launch a music video with a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World”, in tribute to all those contributing to healing the world -- doctors, nurses, healthcare workers.

A total 28 people, including 5 doctors, 3 policemen, and 4 magistrates, are found to have tested positive for Covid-19 in Jamalpur and Habiganj districts.

Gaibandha's first two Covid-19 patients, an expatriate in the US and his mother, have recovered from the disease and returned home from the hospital recently. Taking to The Daily Star, the mother and son told their story of winning the coronavirus battle.

The Bangladesh government should immediately allow the Rohingya refugees stranded on board two trawlers in the Bay of Bengal to come ashore and receive necessary food, water, and health care, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said today.

A total of 198 British citizens who were stranded in Bangladesh leave Dhaka for London on a special flight.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that there is no evidence that people who test positive for the new coronavirus are immunised and protected against reinfection.

Saudi Arabia has abolished flogging as a punishment, the state human rights commission says, hailing a "major step forward" in the reform programme launched by the king and his powerful son.

After two days and following plenty of confusion over a Covid-19 infected woman who fled from a hospital in Sylhet while another woman having the same name being discharged on the same day, police have finally found the ‘real’ patient.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain suspends till April 27 his earlier decision to run court functions to a short extent.