Scientists are only starting to grasp the vast array of health problems caused by the novel coronavirus, some of which may have lingering effects on patients and health systems for years to come, according to doctors and infectious disease experts.

Councillor Khorshed came forward at a time when the closest people of those dead with Covid-19 or with symptoms would not carry on with the funeral proceedings.

Forty people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of DGHS, says during a briefing.

The governor of Texas temporarily halts the state’s reopening yesterday as COVID-19 infections and hospitalizations surged and the country set a new record for a one-day increase in cases.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra claims its antibody testing kit did not get permission from the Directorate General of Drug Administration.

As there is a high demand for hand sanitiser due to Covid-19 pandemic, they set up a factory and started producing hand rub without using its prime element -- isopropyl alcohol.

UNB Editor Mahfuzur Rahman has fully recovered from Covid-19, a month after testing positive for the virus.

The government has decided to use Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in the capital’s Chankharpul for treatment of coronavirus patients.

Three more doctors have died from Covid-19 infections in Dhaka and Chattogram.

India records the highest-ever single-day surge of 16,922 Covid-19 cases as the country’s total tally goes up to 4,73,105 in the last 24 hours.

Thirty-nine Covid-19 patients died, 3,946 were infected and 1,829 recovered in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

The following is a brief roundup of some of the latest scientific studies on the novel coronavirus and efforts to find treatments and vaccines for Covid-19, the illness caused by the virus.

With 3,788 fresh cases, Delhi’s coronavirus tally has risen to over 70,000 as it became the country’s worst-hit city, overtaking Mumbai, the country’s financial hub.

The Local Government Department under the Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry has formed a 15-member coordination cell to prevent the coronavirus transmission.

In 1883, the American poet Emma Lazarus wrote a sonnet about the virtues of diversity and inclusion.

Heart patient Syed Shofiqul Alam, 75, from Habiganj’s Nabiganj upazila, was admitted at the general ward of Sylhet’s North East Medical College Hospital on June 11 with fever.

While the coronavirus itself is a cause for grave concern in the country, some people are out there making business by putting others at further risk of infection by selling fake Covid-19 certificates.

In all but one of the last 16 days, the daily new Covid-19 cases has not dipped below 3,000 and another 3,462 tested positive in the 24 hours preceding 2:30pm yesterday.

With the country witnessing a continuous surge in Covid-19 infections and deaths, a shortage of testing kits appears to be a major setback for efforts to contain the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

Ferdous Ahmed, judge of Lalmonirhat District Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal, died of Covid-19.