The Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic first broke out, Wuhan, ends a two-month lockdown, but a northern town started restricting the movement of its residents amid concerns of a second wave of infections in mainland China.

President Donald Trump threatens to cut US funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of bias toward China, where the authorities lifted a two-and-a-half-month travel ban on Wuhan, the city that spawned the global coronavirus pandemic.

A 45-year old farmer from Brahmanbaria’s Banchharampur upazila dies with symptoms of coronavirus infection at Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s isolation ward.

China Railway Group Limited (CREC) has donated Personal Protective Equipment and other safety gears to the Combined Military Hospital and Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka to extend support to the Bangladesh government’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

A number of families in remote villages of five upazilas in Bandarban are going hungry as their food supply is dwindling and there is no sight of relief coming their way following the coronavirus shutdown.

A special committee led by Cox’s Bazar Unnayan Kotripokko (CUK) is to be formed to protect the unique biodiversity of the world’s longest sea beach in Cox’s Bazar.

Narayanganj district and Gazipur city are placed under complete lockdown to combat the spread of coronavirus.

As the coronavirus crisis upended their livelihoods, tens of thousands of low-income people including day-labourers in Dhaka are struggling to pay their house rent.

The marginalised, the informal sector workers and those who depend on daily income for their livelihood are among the worst-affected by the ongoing shutdown enforced to stop the spread of coronavirus.

A statement by Save the Children Australia said most of Bangladesh’s intensive care beds and ventilators are in major urban centres, making it difficult for remote communities to access those.

The government has started the process to execute the Supreme Court verdict that upheld the death penalty of Retd Captain Abdul Majed for killing father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most of his family members on August 15, 1975.

Starting today Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started testing for coronavirus using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and Bangladesh government, is rolling out $1.5 million in emergency food support for 50,000 extremely poor urban families.

A 55-year-old woman dies with coronavirus-like symptoms in Rupsha upazila of Khulna.

People of at least 33 villages in Lalmonirhat and Moulvibazar have opted for self-lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

Chattogram General Hospital (CGH), the oldest and second largest government hospital in the port city, is going to open an intensive care unit (ICU) within short time.

Habiganj police last night arrested three persons on charge of attacking members of a minority community who protested “filming three girls of the community who were bathing” in the district’s Madhabpur upazila.

The government has launched a national hotline, 333, for providing humanitarian assistance and food to the needy during the nationwide shutdown amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The government is going to purchase 28.25 lakh metric tonnes of rice and wheat in the current Boro season.

A case was filed in connection with the rape of a fifteen-year-old girl in Bagerhat’s Sadar upazila last night.