Seventeen police personnel of a station have been infected with coronavirus in Gopalganj, district officials have confirmed.

Government might extend the ongoing nationwide shutdown until May 5, in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Grameenphone secured Tk 1,070 crore in net profits in the first three months of the year with 25.8 percent year on year growth, shows its first-quarter financial statement today.

At least 97 Bangladeshis have been tested Covid-19 positive in Bahrain, says a Bangladesh mission official in the Gulf country.

India has handed over Risaldar Moslehuddin, a key conspirator convicted for assassinating Bangladesh’s founding father Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members, to Bangladesh, Indian officials say.

At least two people die in Khulna and Bogura with coronavirus symptoms since yesterday evening.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Joypurhat.

Missouri has become the first US state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the outbreak that originated in the city of Wuhan brought devastating economic losses to the state.

Narail’s Lohagarah upazila is declared locked down after three doctors and two staffers of Lohagarah Upazila Health Complex test positive for coronavirus.

Seventy-three percent of the total infected are from Dhaka division, says Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A readymade garments (RMG) worker tests positive for coronavirus in Sadar upazila of Magura, making him the first confirmed coronavirus case in the district.

Maldives President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih expresses his gratitude to Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for sending medical equipment and relief materials to his country to face the Covid-19 situation there.

An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. People are also noticing animals in places and at times they don’t usually. When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

Two people including a banker have tested positive for coronavirus in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia and the district town.

A team of Indian researchers are making the fictional world collide with the scientific one by naming a new species of snake they discovered -- "Trimeresurus Salazar" -- after Salazar Slytherin of Harry Potter.

President Donald Trump says his new USimmigration ban would last 60 days and apply to those seeking 'green cards' for permanent residency in an effort to protect Americans seeking to regain jobs lost because of the coronavirus.

A second wave of the coronavirus is expected to hit the United States next winter and could strike much harder than the first because it would likely arrive at the start of influenza season, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns.

A local health worker of a non-government organisation has tested coronavirus positive in Mujibgangar upazila of Meherpur.

339 citizens of the United States have left Dhaka as the US government arranged a fourth special flight for those who opted to return amid the coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 254 Bangladeshis who were stranded in India, Maldives and Turkey for over a month, return home on three separate special flights.