While businesses across the globe are hit hard by fallout from coronavirus outbreak, Netflix hits an all-time high in the US stock market, becoming more valuable than rival entertainment giant Disney.

A coalition of leading development organisations today called on the government and other development actors to prioritise needs of the marginalised with taking comprehensive, inclusive and far-sighted measures to protect extreme poor population in rural and urban areas amid evolving coronavirus situation.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has advised all city dwellers not to be on the streets with their vehicles during the ongoing closure unless for emergencies, or else they may face legal action for defying the directive.

Six recent studies by the Brac James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), Brac University and Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) explore the toll the coronavirus outbreak is taking on the general and mental health of people in Bangladesh.

Defying the nationwide shutdown to curb the transmission of Covid-19, thousands of people today took part in the janaza of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish’s ‘Nayeb-e Amir’ Maulana Zubayer Ahmad Ansari, held at a madrasa in Bertola village under Sorail upazila of Brahmanbaria district.

The House went into its seventh session this afternoon for a very brief period due to spread of Covid-19 in different parts of the country.

A Bangladeshi labour counsellor working in Jeddah has been infected with Covid-19, foreign ministry says.

Bangladesh Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Golam Moshi has urged Bangladeshis living there to call 937 for health advice if any of them suffer from coronavirus-like symptoms.

A 35-year-old man dies, a day after he was sent to the isolation centre of Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in Sylhet with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Four people are killed in separate incidents of being struck by lightning in Sunamganj.

A Facebook page by the name of ‘Bangladesh Sangbadik Samity’ has been spreading a rumour that The Daily Star’s sports reporter Ramin Talukder has been infected with coronavirus and had been attending office till April 12.

Nine died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, IEDCR says.

The Indian health ministry says the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the country was doubling has slowed post the nationwide lockdown.

The Nigerian president's chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen says on Twitter.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro calls for the reopening of the country's borders, as he pushes to restart South America's largest economy.

A Trauma Centre located at Mohipal in Sadar upazila of Feni is declared as an isolation unit for the treatment of coronavirus-infected patients.

Two more people in Faridpur test positive for coronavirus infection, bringing the total number of infected in the district to four.

Fish egg collectors at Halda River are excited with hopes of a good yield due to a drop in pollution this year thanks to the ongoing countrywide shutdown to contain the spread of coronavirus. But at the same time, they worry that it will be difficult to sell their catch.

Four special flights will be operated from Dhaka to London between April 21 and 26 to take back British citizens and their direct dependants.

The Indian home ministry asks all states to trace and medically screen all Rohingya Muslim refugees in the country over concerns that they may have attended Tablighi Jamaat’s congregation and Ijtema resulting into contraction of coronavirus.