Freedom fighter and Law Minister Anisul Huq's mother Jahanara Huq has passed away at a hospital in Dhaka at the age of 86.

A pattern is emerging among Covid-19 patients arriving at hospitals in New York: Beyond fever, cough and shortness of breath, some are deeply disoriented to the point of not knowing where they are or what year it is.

World coronavirus deaths surged past 150,000 as US President Donald Trump accuses China of continuing to cover up its toll, even after Beijing revised figures sharply upward for Wuhan, the original epicentre of the global pandemic.

A 30-year-old woman in Shariatpur has tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the district's confirmed cases to seven.

Digital Health (DH), a Grameen social business, has launched a new insurance coverage for individuals for coronavirus-related expenses.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) is to go tougher with an aim to ensure social distancing in the capital.

Around 100 doctors have been infected with coronavirus so far in the country, according to a tally of Bangladesh Doctors Foundation, an organisation of doctors.

Another one lakh low-income families from across the country have been provided cash assistance by Brac, the world’s biggest non-government organisation, to help the families amid the economic fallout from coronavirus pandemic.

Hasina Akther Huq, former country director for Brac in Uganda during the Ebola outbreak, sees parallels between the current coronavirus situation in Bangladesh and the Ebola outbreak in the African nation.

The local administration announces the lockdown of Panchagarh district after a woman tested positive for Covid-19 in Tirnoihat union under Tetulia upazila, the first confirmed case in the district.

Two people with coronavirus-like symptoms die at the isolation unit of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal.

Police arrest a man in a case filed in connection with the rape of a woman and then stealing her money in Mymensingh’s Ishwarganj upazila.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expresses concern over ruling Awami League’s announcement to form partisan “relief committee” at ward level to help local administration in relief distribution.

Five people, including two of a family, test positive for Coronavirus in Jamalpur, bringing the total number of cases in the district to 21.

The local administration puts Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram under lockdown in an effort to contain the spread and transmission of coronavirus.

Sixty-three Bangladeshis reportedly have tested positive for Covid-19 in Malaysia.

A total of 542 Canadian and Australian citizens, who were stranded in Bangladesh following the outbreak of coronavirus, leave Dhaka for their respective countries on separate chartered flights.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended his shutdown order in the US coronavirus outbreak epicenter until May 15, citing data showing improved conditions but insisting on the need to maintain vigilance.

A 33-year-old man, who died in an isolation ward at a hospital in Chandpur on Tuesday, tests negative for coronavirus.

The doctors and nurses at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram have been resilient in discharging their duties in the Covid-19 isolation ward, although they are having to manage their own as there is no support from the hospital authorities.