The government is going to launch special open market sale (OMS) of coarse rice at the rate of Tk 10 per kg at all city corporation areas of the country in bid to ensure food for relatively poor people during the nationwide shutdown to curb coronavirus transmission.

A total of eight Bangladeshis die of Covid-19 in the US over the last 24 hours.

The 16-year-old girl who was admitted to Shaheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital's isolation centre in Sylhet this afternoon, died of congestive cardiac failure and Cor Pulmonale, doctors say.

Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 51, says IEDCR.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming has written an open letter to the people of Bangladesh, saying that China and its people will stay with the country in this war against the common enemy of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has asked the authorities concerned to take immediate steps to check mosquitoes, in order to prevent dengue across the country.

Three Bangladeshis, who recently returned from Sweden, might be released from Ashkona Hajj Camp quarantine centre today as they had no symptoms of Covid-19 during their 14-day stay there.

A total of 34,000 permanent and temporary workers of 46 tea gardens in Sylhet and Habiganj have gone on strike, demanding suspension of work in order to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

Those who died from coronavirus came to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) at the last stage, the organisations’ director Dr Meerjady Sabrina Flora has said.

A suspected drug dealer in Dinajpur and an alleged robber in Pabna have been killed in “gunfight” with police early today.

Five members of a family, who were kept in isolation with flu-like symptoms at Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital, have tested negative, said Dr Nadirul Aziz, superintendent of the hospital.

Bangladeshi photojournalist A Hai Swapan dies from coronavirus in New York.

Police recover the bodies of three members of a family from a house in Chakrabarty area of Gazipur city.

Amidst concerns that the ongoing lockdown to contain the spread of Covid-19 would economically impact India, the government in the southern state of Telangana has decided to implement pay-cuts for government employees and pensioners.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government-declared shutdown to prevent the transmission of Covid-19 might be extended till April 9.

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to sharply slow growth in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as well as China, the World Bank says in an economic update.

The National Board of Revenue directs its customs offices to release industrial raw materials alongisde imported essential commodities, emergency medical equipment related products and services.

Bob Dylan releases a 17-minute song inspired by the assassination more than five decades ago of US President John F Kennedy - the influential singer's first original music since 2012.

The European Ombudsman nullifies the rights groups' complaints against labour rights violation in Bangladesh and gives verdict in favour of the country for continuing enjoyment of the GSP to the European markets.

Thieves have stolen a painting by Dutch master Vincent van Gogh overnight from the Netherlands' Singer Laren Museum, currently closed to the public because of the coronavirus, its director says.