Three more people test positive for coronavirus in Chattogram.

A couple of videos shared this month on Facebook purportedly show recent lootings in shops in South Africa, while the country undergoes a 21-day lockdown to minimise the spread of the novel coronavirus. However, both videos show footage of earlier looting incidents and were already circulating online last year.

The Directorate General of Health Services announces that the Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital in Khanpur area of Narayanganj city will be used to provide treatment to patients diagnosed with coronavirus (Covid-19).

A 34-year-old pharmacist at Madarganj Upazila Health Complex in Jamalpur tests positive for coronavirus, the second such case in the district.

Authorities place Lalmonirhat district under lockdown until further notice in a bid to contain spread of the novel coronavirus.

The local administration distributes government relief to the remote Kapru Para of Bandarban’s Lama upazila after The Daily Star ran a report on the matter titled “Acute food crisis hits village in Bandarban”.

The authorities concerned of the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) in Sylhet announce that it will be closed on the day of Shab-e-Barat (Thursday) and Friday to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

Police locked down a slum in the capital’s Sher-e-Bangla Nagar area today after a resident tested positive for coronavirus.

India’s Supreme Court orders that Covid-19 tests in approved government or private laboratories should be conducted free of cost.

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders suspends his campaign for the White House, making former Vice President Joe Biden the presumptive nominee to face Republican Donald Trump in the November 3 election.

Six houses of Tabligh Jamaat members who returned to Dhaka’s Savar from Sylhet are placed under lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The local administration in Rangpur has locked down 10 houses in Khandakar Para village in Mithapukur upazila’s Balarhat union, after a student there tested positive for coronavirus today.

People of low-income groups, including daily wage earners, formed an hour-long human chain at Chowrangi intersection in Panchagarh town on Panchagarh-Dhaka highway this afternoon, demanding relief material immediately.

Narsingdi district will be put under lockdown from tomorrow to contain the coronavirus pandemic.

She is a cardiac patient. Yet, this 35-year-old doctor did not evade her duties -- knowing the added risks -- during the ongoing coronavirus outbreak. She continues to work at Kuwait Bangladesh Friendship Government Hospital.

Captain Abdul Majed, convicted killer of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman has filed a mercy petition today appealing against his death sentence.

Two people suffering from respiratory illness die in Brahmanbaria.

A 34-year-old man dies from breathing complication while undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Shariatpur Sadar Hospital.

A two-year-old child died of flu-like symptoms in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila this morning.

The principal branch of Agrani Bank, located on the ground floor of its headquarters in Dhaka’s Motijheel, has been locked down after one of the employees tested positive for the novel coronavirus.