Two alleged robbers are killed in “gunfight” with Rab in Munshiganj’s Sreenagar upazila.

A woman suspected to be showing symptoms of coronavirus was left behind in a forest in Tangail’s Shakhipur upazila allegedly by her family members yesterday evening.

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

Insaf Barakah Kidney and General Hospital in Dhaka’s Moghbazar has been put under lockdown today after nine of its healthcare service providers, including two doctors, tested positive for Covid-19 last night.

The government has taken an initiative to keep the doctors, nurses and other healthcare workers -- providing medical services to coronavirus patients in the designated hospitals -- at 20 hotels, including Pan Pacific Sonargaon Hotel in the capital.

Four more people have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Munshiganj, raising the total number in the district to 18, according to the district’s civil surgeon.

Governments battling a virus that has crossed borders with breathtaking swiftness pinned their hopes Tuesday on tests, technology and a coordinated approach to ease the tight social-distancing restrictions that have slowed the pandemic but strangled the global economy.

Nilphamari district has been locked down to prevent further spread of Covid-19 transmission.

A passenger launch of the Patuakhali-Dhaka route is declared a “floating isolation unit” at Patuakhali river port, to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

Seven more died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, DGHS says.

A 40-year-old man dies with Covid-19 symptoms in Bandarban’s Lama upazila.

Bidyanondo Foundation, a non-profit social welfare organisation, distributed food among 500 tea workers’ families in Chunarughat upazila of Habiganj, who had been languishing since authorities shut down the tea garden following a clash with them on March 5.

The novel coronavirus is 10 times deadlier than swine flu, which caused a global pandemic in 2009, the World Health Organization has said, stressing a vaccine would be necessary to fully halt transmission.

The three-week lockdown across India which was imposed to contain the spread of coronavirus has been extended till May 3, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces.

North Korea has fired several suspected cruise missiles towards the sea, the South's military says.

A 33-year-old man, who was in an isolation ward at a hospital in Chandpur with coronavirus symptoms, dies.

An alleged robber is killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in Bosila area of Dhaka.

Rajshahi district has been brought under lockdown to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The three-week coronavirus-induced lockdown across India may have cost the national economy Rs 7-8 lakh crore, analysts and industry bodies say.

Tornadoes ripped through the southern United States, killing at least 32 people and leaving behind splintered buildings and downed powerlines, officials and US media says.