A two-year-old child died of flu-like symptoms in Moulvibazar’s Kamalganj upazila this morning.

The principal branch of Agrani Bank, located on the ground floor of its headquarters in Dhaka’s Motijheel, has been locked down after one of the employees tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

Venture Capital and Private Equity Association of Bangladesh (VCPEAB) has submitted a proposal to the finance minister seeking Tk 450 crore grant for salary payment of start-up business employees and office rent for six months.

The story of a Malaysian man, who walked 70km over three days from Kota Kinabalu to get to his hometown of Kota Marudu (some 120km away) with a dog as his companion, is getting much attention from internet users.

Bangladesh Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi asks industry owners not to terminate their employees, even if the factories remain closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Cox’s Bazar district has been put under lockdown today to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.

A 22-year-old man dies with Covid-19 symptoms in Dowarabazar upazila of Sunamganj.

Three more died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, IEDCR says.

The Australian High Commission in Bangladesh arranges a non-scheduled commercial flight to take back the Australians currently in Bangladesh.

A female student of Jagannath University (JnU), who lives in Dhaka’s Uttara with her family, tests positive for Covid-19.

Due to a lack of response from people wishing to participate in this year’s hajj, the religious affairs ministry extends the deadline for registration till April 16, according to a notice issued in this regard.

The Chinese city where the coronavirus epidemic first broke out, Wuhan, ends a two-month lockdown, but a northern town started restricting the movement of its residents amid concerns of a second wave of infections in mainland China.

President Donald Trump threatens to cut US funding to the World Health Organization, accusing it of bias toward China, where the authorities lifted a two-and-a-half-month travel ban on Wuhan, the city that spawned the global coronavirus pandemic.

China Railway Group Limited (CREC) has donated Personal Protective Equipment and other safety gears to the Combined Military Hospital and Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka to extend support to the Bangladesh government’s fight against the coronavirus outbreak.

The Covid-19 pandemic is still having severe impacts on many countries and it is not at all clear how long it will take to play out globally.

Two elderly South Korean coronavirus patients recovered from severe pneumonia after being treated with plasma from survivors, researchers said yesterday, offering hope in the face of the global pandemic.

The health crisis created by coronavirus has turned into an economic crisis now. It is not clear to me why the “stay at home” order has been called “holiday”.

The governors of New York, New Jersey and Louisiana pointed to tentative signs on Monday that the coronavirus outbreak may be starting to plateau in their states but warned against complacency as the death toll nationwide approached 11,000.

That capitalism is cruel should come as no surprise to those who understand either the meaning of cruelty or the logic of capitalism.

While there is unanimity that community transmission is happening only in clusters, experts differ with the administration that there should be no cause for concern.