Twelve persons including a doctor test positive for novel coronavirus in different upazilas of Cumilla district.

A man dies by suicide in Chattogram’s Bashkhali upazila after he was left out of relief net.

Bank employees will be entitled to a health insurance coverage of Tk 5 lakh to Tk 10 lakh if they are infected by coronavirus while delivering services to customers, according to a notice issued by Bangladesh Bank.

It is crucial that China and the United States properly manage their relations amid the coronavirus pandemic, top Chinese diplomat Yang Jiechi tells US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.

The families of each migrant worker who died from coronavirus abroad will get Tk 3 lakh as compensation from the Wage Earners’ Welfare Board (WEWB) under the expatriates’ welfare ministry.

A total of 312 Bangladeshis, including 13 cabin crew, returned to Dhaka from Saudi Arabia.

Google announces it will launch an emergency fund to help local news outlets struggling to maintain operations in the face of the coronavirus pandemic.

Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka launches 3T (test, trace and treatment) services in a bid to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.

Additional Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has taken charge as Director General (DG) of Rab.

The government warns of stern action against anybody found to be involved in misappropriating essential commodities sold by the state-owned Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB).

A doctor and a staffer of Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital have tested Covid-19 positive, hospital sources confirm.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) on April 14 issued a statement saying the government will take legal action against factory owners if they fail to pay workers by April 16.

The number of cases of Covid-19 reported worldwide passes two million, according to a Reuters tally.

The government is setting up quarantine centres for 4,000 persons in Dhaka and some other districts around the capital for those who will be repatriated from different countries, mainly from the Middle East.

A senior doctor at Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital tested positive for coronavirus and has since been in isolation.

Hundreds of workers of different garment factories in Dhaka, Chattogram and Narayanganj staged demonstrations demanding their salaries for March.

Schools and educational institutions were the first to be closed for coronavirus precautions. The entire academic year has been forced to deal with the rescheduling of exams, including the HSC examinations. As a result, with the state of the nation put on hold indefinitely, many schools and universities have migrated to online classes. The transition has not been without any hurdles, but students and teachers are still adapting effectively.

A huge fire that tore through forests around the defunct Chernobyl nuclear plant has been put out, Ukrainian officials say, after hundreds of emergency workers used planes and helicopters to douse the flames.

Pran-RFL group has distributed relief materials to some 40,000 families across the country during the ongoing shutdown over coronavirus continues.

Countries that ease restrictions imposed to fight the spread of the coronavirus should wait at least two weeks to evaluate the impact of such changes before easing again, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.