The setting up of a quarantine centre at Rajuk Apartment Project near Diyabari in Dhaka’s Uttara is currently being delayed, the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) said today.

Election Commission postpones Chattogram City Corporation election and by-polls to two constituencies due to the outbreak of coronavirus.

A second Bangladeshi -- who tested positive for coronavirus -- has died, and four more persons have been detected with Covid-19, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 24.

Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen says the government will soon import 10,000 testing kits and 10,000 protective equipment from China to fight the spread of coronavirus.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges everyone to not hoard food and other essential items out of panic, as the country has enough stock of everything.

Country music legend Kenny Rogers, whose career spanned six decades, has died at the age of 81, his family said late Friday.

A suspected drug peddler is killed in a reported gunfight with police in Santhia upazila of Pabna.

Coronavirus can sicken or kill young people as well and they must also avoid mingling and spreading it to older and more vulnerable people, the World Health Organization has said.

AL candidate for Dhaka-10 by-polls Md Shafiul Islam Mohiuddin failed to cast his vote as his fingerprint did not match with the server information, an assistant presiding officer has said.

A Bangladeshi expatriate in Italy’s Milan has died after being tested positive for Covid-19, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says.

Popular mountaineer and social activist Wasfia Nazreen has tested positive for the coronavirus and is currently in quarantine, she claimed in a Facebook post today.

Voting in Dhaka-10, Bagerhat-4 and Gaibandha-3 by-polls begin amid public health concerns over coronavirus.

Prime Minister and Awami League President Sheikh Hasina casts her vote in the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) by-polls to Dhaka-10 constituency at Dhaka City College centre.

Amid aspirants’ fears over coronavirus, the Bankers' Selection Committee Secretariat is taking viva voce for the post of ‘Assistant Executive Officer (AEO)’ of Janata Bank Limited.

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak says that they would work to fix a business continuity plan through standard operating procedures to keep services running amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy leapt by 627 to 4,032, officials say, an increase of 18.4% -- by far the largest daily rise in absolute terms since the contagion emerged.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee announces that her government will provide free food grains under the Public Distribution System for the next six months, which will benefit 7.5 crore people of the state to mitigate the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

Authorities of Shah Amanat International Airport in Chattogram are waiting for the decision of Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh regarding closing the airport for all international flights until further notice in order to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Mobile courts conduct drives in different kitchen markets in five upazilas of Noakhali and fined some 38 traders nearly Tk 2 lakh for selling essential items at high prices following the coronavirus outbreak.

Iran says that coronavirus has killed 149 more people in the Islamic republic, raising the country's official death toll from the disease to 1,433.