Government has taken an initiative to provide food assistance to those who have lost their means of daily income, due to the ongoing 10-day shutdown.

Local authorities have locked down five houses in Chowgachha upazila of Jashore after a teenager of the area was admitted to hospital with symptoms similar to that of coronavirus infection.

Four people have been killed and two injured as a locomotive hit a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Pirgachha upazila of Rangpur.

BSMMU has set up a “fever clinic” at Bangladesh Betar Bhaban in Shahbagh. Doctors are regularly providing services at the “clinic”, set up at the ground floor of Betar Bhaban, BSMMU said in a press release.

At least 150 people of 30 families have been home-quarantined after a man died with symptoms similar to that of Covid-19 infection in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has donated Tk 12.5 crore to the Prime Minister's Relief and Welfare Fund to help combat the outbreak of coronavirus in the country.

A newborn was rescued from a dumpster in Ice Factory Road area under Chattogram’s Sadarghat Police Station.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will hold a video conference with govt officials of all 64 districts on Tuesday to coordinate the ongoing activities to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) has been given the permission to begin testing patients for COVID-19, alongside the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), icddr,b officials confirmed today.

US-Bangla Airlines, a private air operator of the country, will provide personal protective equipment (PPEs) to doctors, nurses and other staffers of all public and private medical college hospitals free of cost until the coronavirus outbreak is over.

The Indian government has said it has no plans to extend the 21-day nationwide lockdown, which ends on April 14, to check the spread of coronavirus.

A 51-year-old man suffering from cold, cough, fever and breathing problems for the past three days dies at Kushtia General Hospital.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has instructed the authorities concerned to provide food aid to people, who have lost their means of daily income, due to the ongoing 10-day shutdown.

Bracing the nation for a death toll that could exceed 100,000 people, US President Donald Trump has extended restrictive social distancing guidelines through April, bowing to public-health experts who presented him with even more dire projections for the expanding coronavirus pandemic.

Another person has tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 49, says IEDCR.

Local authorities of Hathazari upazila in Chattogram are sending appreciation letters to recently-returned expatriates in the area, who have completed their quarantine period as per government directives.

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital has received the Polymerase Chain Reaction testing machine, known as PCR, which will be used to detect Covid-19.

Joe Diffie, a Grammy award-winning country music singer who had several chart-topping hits in the 1990s, has died of coronavirus. He was 61.

Mainland China reports 31 new coronavirus cases, including one locally transmitted infection, the country’s National Health Commission said, dropping from 45 cases a day earlier.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he would remain in self-imposed isolation even though his wife, who had contracted the coronavirus, has recovered.