Five people test positive for coronavirus in Maheshkhali upazila, an island under Cox’s Bazar district.

The US death toll from the novel coronavirus reaches 50,000, having doubled in 10 days, according to a Reuters tally.

The local administration distributes government relief to a remote village in Bandarban’s Lama upazila after The Daily Star ran a report on food crisis among people in the village.

Nineteen staffers, including six doctors and seven nurses, of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) have tested positive for coronavirus in the last 24 hours.

The government extends the ongoing suspension on all types of public transport till May 5 to check spread of Covid-19 in the country.

Grameenphone today said they have donated Tk 15 crore to Brac’s emergency food assistance fund, which will help 100,000 families, who have become jobless following the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Awami League Lawmaker Abdul Matin Khasru has provided food assistance to 5,000 poor families in Burichang and Brahmmanpara upazilas in Cumilla.

As part of its humanitarian effort, Grameen Shakti head office staffers have started providing food support to some 1,750 underprivileged families across the country.

India records 1,684 new Covid-19 positive cases in the last 24 hours, the highest in that time span so far, bringing the total number of cases to 23,077.

A total of 332 more Bangladeshi nationals, who were stranded in India due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 pandemic, return home from New Delhi and Chennai on two chartered flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines and US-Bangla airlines respectively.

The second of the two men shot by the gunman of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozzammel Haque in Gazipur dies at a hospital.

The holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims engage in self-purification through fasting and abstinence, begins in the country tomorrow as the new crescent moon is sighted in Bangladesh sky today.

Save Youth Bangladesh, a Dhaka University (DU) based youth platform, offers 32 youth researchers from nine public universities to conduct social research on different aspects including impact of covid-19 in the country.

Grameen Bank provides relief materials in Jamalpur to 815 ultra-poor elderly people, mostly women, who are hit hard due to the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.

Despite showing no symptoms, four members of a family at Sakhipur upazila in Tangail district tested positive for coronavirus today.

A union parishad chairman and a female member of Patuakhali are suspended for allegedly stealing relief rice.

Two friends succumbed to their injuries earlier today after being stabbed by unidentified miscreants on Thursday. The altercation began when the duo spoke up against the miscreants blowing smoke on their faces at Sitakunda upazila of Chattogram district amid the countrywide shutdown over coronavirus.

Four people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, DGHS says.

A grocery shop owner is electrocuted and three others of a family, including two children, were injured while they were flying a kite on their rooftop in Savar’s Ashulia area.

A medical technologist from Rupsha upazilla of Khulna who collected samples from Covid-19 patients has tested positive for coronavirus infection, the district’s civil surgeon says.