Countries must return to “basic principles” of public health surveillance if they are to bring the coronavirus outbreak under control, the World Health Organization’s (WHO) top emergency health expert said on Friday.

A spectre is haunting the conscientious citizens of Bangladesh—the spectre of the Digital Security Act, 2018 (DSA).

Although the government had announced that shopping centres and malls would reopen today ahead of Eid, most owners in Dhaka and Chattogram cities have decided to keep the establishments closed as the number of Covid-19 cases keeps surging in the country.

Bangladesh is yet to conduct an epidemiological surveillance which experts say is very important to understand the gravity of the coronavirus situation and will help take any policy decision in this regard.

The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) has warned that the world is at risk of “mega-famines” as COVID-19 cases are expected to peak in the world’s most fragile countries in the next three to six months.

A government-appointed committee has said the Covid-19 outbreak may peak in the weeks around the Eid, but several independent experts said it is too early to make such a prediction.

Evercare Hospital Dhaka has conducted the first ever convalescent plasma (CP) therapy in Bangladesh recently, says a press release. Successfully conducted in many developed countries recently, this therapy is a promising research treatment to combat the global pandemic of coronavirus disease (COVID-19).

People with cancer appear to be at increased risk of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and their outcomes are worse than those of individuals without cancer. This is especially valid for cancer patients with other diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease etc.

While having no promising success so far against the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), social distancing and quarantine are the only preventive measures advised by experts around the world.

Another police personnel infected with Covid-19 dies at the Central Police Hospital in Dhaka.

The central bank almost doubles the volume of funding of three refinance schemes for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in order to protect the marginal entrepreneurs from the ongoing economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic.

Yet another official of the Anti-Corruption Commission, who had tested positive for coronavirus, has died during undergoing treatment at a hospital in Dhaka.

Google and Facebook tell most employees to keep working from home for the rest of the year as part of a response by the tech giants to the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The United States issues a new rule tightening visa guidelines for Chinese journalists, saying it was in response to the treatment of US journalists in China, a shift that comes amid tensions between the two nations over the coronavirus global pandemic.

India today began transporting essential commodities by railways, weeks after bilateral trade was hampered due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Most of the shopping malls and markets in Chattogram city will remain closed till Eid-ul-Fitr, despite the government allowing markets to reopen from tomorrow.

The Covid-19 induced shutdown has forced pretty much everyone into the confines of their homes or shelters, except for wildlife. Even though, there aren’t so many people out there to celebrate the wild right now, the wild rages on in its full (or what remains) glory.

EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to salvage some of the summer tourism season, the bloc’s executive will say next week.

Eight people died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

An order by the police in West Bengal, asking its personnel to play a “Covid-19 awareness song” penned by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Rabindranath Tagore's 159th birth anniversary, has sparked a row in the state.