Shahiduzzaman Sarker, lawmaker of Naogaon-2 constituency, has said that he tested positive for Covid-19.

With more and more police personnel being infected with the highly contagious virus, the 250-bed police hospital in Dhaka is struggling to accommodate patients.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given a set of guidelines on ways to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace.

India announces an extension to the ongoing 40-day nationwide lockdown for two more weeks from May 4 onwards due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Dhaka Bar Association announces Tk 12.29 crore loans for its 5,485 lawyers for a year to face the situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 141 police personnel, including 68 of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), have tested positive for Covid-19 in the 24 hours leading up to 2:30pm today, raising the number of confirmed cases of police to 677 across the country.

The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi takes up with concerned Indian authorities the issue of using bus on Petrapole-Benapole route for bringing back the remaining stranded Bangladeshis in India due to Covid-19-forced lockdown.

Perhaps Bangladesh has the highest number of people out of jobs thanks to the protracted shutdown that has taken away income opportunities for tens of thousands of people, particularly in the informal sector. Or, perhaps not.

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

Local administration of Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila has introduced a digital monitoring system in order to prevent relief misappropriation in the area during Covid-19 outbreak.

Scientists at Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) in India’s Kolkata claim to have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that could treat Covid-19 and a few other diseases.

Another police official infected with Covid-19 dies at Central Police Hospital.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his hard-fought trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and he threatened new tariffs on Beijing, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tells President Vladimir Putin that he has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus and is temporarily stepping down to recover.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain is now past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak and promises to set out a lockdown exit strategy next week, despite rising deaths and criticism of his government’s response.

The recent events in the garment sector regarding the workers’ unpaid wages, layoffs, retrenchment and opening of factories without proper safety measures portray that the May Day does not bear any more significance than a normal day.

People employed in the informal sector get little attention from the policymakers although they account for 85 per cent of the country’s total employed population of 6.08 crore and keep the wheel of the economy humming.

All over the world, jobs are being lost on a massive scale for measures adopted to fight the health crisis caused by coronavirus, and Bangladesh is no exception.

In these times of Covid-19, the big challenge for most of us is how to protect ourselves and our families from the virus and how to hold on to our jobs. For policymakers, that translates into beating the pandemic without doing irreversible damage to the economy in the process.

In a shocking development amidst the countrywide lockdown, thousands of garment workers have returned to work in Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj