The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) imposes the highest alert at different areas along the Bangladesh-India border in Jashore’s Benapole to prevent suspected coronavirus-infected people from trespassing into Bangladesh side.

The suburb of Jackson Heights is known to have one the largest Bangladeshi populations in the United States. The local mosque, called the Jackson Heights Islamic Center, is a focal point for many in the community, especially for a large number of taxi drivers. It has now become a support centre helping allay fears around the novel coronavirus.

About 100,000 migrant workers in Maldives, including many Bangladeshis, are at added risk from Covid-19, Human Rights Watch has said, urging authorities to ensure their access to healthcare.

Locals at different parts of Hathazari upazila are placing logs and placards with warning messages, and digging holes in the middle of the roads so that outsiders are unable to enter their villages, in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus.

All 16 police stations under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have started services -- taking daily essentials to the doorsteps of port city residents who have been asked to stay home to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

A US-based lab unveiled a portable test that can tell if someone has Covid-19 in as little as five minutes, it says in a statement.

The law ministry has opened a monitoring desk in order to take necessary steps to tackle a coronavirus outbreak if it takes place among the lower court judges and employees across the country.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) Mohammad Javed Patwary has asked law enforcers around the country to remain tolerant, polite and professional with public while performing duties.

Four alleged yaba traders have been killed in separate “gunfights” with Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and police in Teknaf upazila of Cox's Bazar district.

An assistant commissioner, whose photos of publicly humiliating elderly people triggered outrage among netizens, has been withdrawn, the Ministry of Public Administration has confirmed.

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a $300,000 emergency grant yesterday to support the Bangladesh government’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

A 38-year-old school teacher was burnt to death as a fire broke out at her house in East Vandaria village in Vandaria upazila of Pirojpur district early today.

Four more people who had tested positive with coronavirus, have fully recovered, taking the recovery number to 15 so far, IEDCR said today.

At least 10 Bangladeshis died in New York till Friday as coronavirus cases surge in the United States, according to local journalists.

Three people have been killed as a fire broke out at a house in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

Five labourers are killed and 11 others injured as a cement-laden truck overturns in Tangail Sadar upazila.

President Donald Trump signs $2 trillion rescue plan to salvage a US economy crippled by the novel coronavirus, on a day the nation recorded more than 100,000 confirmed cases of virus infections.

The United States now has nearly 100,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus and there have been 1,475 deaths, according to a Johns Hopkins University tracker.

Italy records 919 deaths from coronavirus in a single day, the highest daily toll anywhere in the world, while the number of confirmed cases eclipses the total in China where the virus first emerged.

A divisional taskforce -- comprising army officials and civilians -- to fight the Covid-19 outbreak has decided to use the intensive care unit (ICU) of the private Parkview Hospital in Chattogram city to treat coronavirus infected patients.