In the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, Bangladeshi corporate giant Beximco Group has come forward to provide personal protective equipment (PPE), medicines, and test kits for protecting the frontline healthcare professionals who are dealing with the Covid-19 patients every day.

Mission Save Bangladesh, a joint initiative of The Daily Star, Sheba.xyz, and Samakal, unites with The Shakib Al Hasan Foundation.

Gono Kalyan Trust, a nongovernment organisation, has donated Tk five lakh to Gonoshasthaya Kendra to help it continue its research on how to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus, a press release says.

The government has initiated a process to disseminate information about coronavirus and collect health information of mobile phone users from the mobile phone users through popular mobile applications.

The government will sue people under the Digital Security Act for sharing or publicising rumours or confusing or unverified information on social media or through any other means during the 10-day closure to fight coronavirus.

Transparency International Bangladesh has underscored the need for creating a special fund equivalent to 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product to face the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon today inaugurated a month-long food distribution programme for those in need during the ongoing closure of government and private institutions to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

A 21-year-old woman has been put under institutional quarantine at Jajira Upazila Health Complex in Shariatpur today.

The only thing we know for sure about COVID-19 is that we don’t know enough about it yet.

The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh have arranged a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families departing Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces creation of the Prime Minister’s Citizen Assistance and Relief in Emergency Situations Fund with voluntary contributions from all.

A manufacturer at the Chattogram Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) -- Smart Jacket (BD) Limited -- has received a working order for 50,000 more sets of surgical jackets from the Ministry of Health.

A stationary seller comes under attack by another shop owner as he was selling facemasks at a low price in a local market in Chattogram’s Rangunia upazila.

Angry workers of a Chinese company at Ishwardi EPZ besiege the factory and stage demonstration demanding the owners shut it down and allow leave for the workers amid the coronavirus outbreak.

On behalf of the administration, upazila nirbarhi officer of Manirampur today apologised to the three elderly persons who were humiliated by the assistant commissioner (Land) of the upazila in Jashore on Friday.

The samples of a 30-year-old man, who died at a Khagrachhari hospital after being admitted there with fever and breathing complications, test negative for the novel coronavirus (Covid-19).

The Chinese embassy today confirmed that none of the 40,500 test kits sent to Bangladesh are from Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology -- the company which was under question by the Spanish government on Thursday for supplying “faulty” kits.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has handed out instructions to its officials on handling the shutdown.

A youth and an 80-year-old woman have been admitted at the Corona Isolation Centre at Sylhet Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital with coronavirus-like symptoms.

A 45-year-old-man, suffering from a cold, cough and fever, dies allegedly after receiving no treatment in Bogura’s Shibganj upazila.