International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) yesterday started a clinical trial to evaluate the safety and efficacy of anti-parasitic medicine Ivermectin, the organisation stated in a press release.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting yesterday discussed the Covid-19 situation in the country and issued directives to contain the pandemic.

India’s official coronavirus death toll leapt by more than 2,000 yesterday as China closed schools in Beijing and restricted air travel from the capital to prevent a second wave of infections.

Three more doctors died of Covid-19 in different districts yesterday, taking the toll to 44, according to Bangladesh Medical Association.

Fourteen areas in Khulna district have been declared “red zones” as the Covid-19 cases have seen a spike in those.

Qatar Airways temporarily closed its Dhaka office from today after seeing a huge rush of ticket-buyers. The office was closed to maintain social distancing, with the airlines requesting passengers to book tickets via phone or email.

“Why does my father not come to me? When will he wake up?” These are the questions three-and-half-year-old Rayed Muntasir Alif frequently asks his mother and close ones.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting discusses the Covid-19 situation in the country and issued directives to contain the pandemic.

Prof Kanak Kanti Barua, vice chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), has said that the Gonoshasthaya Kendra-developed rapid test kit is not effective in detecting Covid-19.

Three more doctors have died of coronavirus in Dhaka, Dinajpur and Chattogram.

Forty-three people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

In a massive spike, India reports more than 2,003 coronavirus deaths in 24 hours for the first time with Maharashtra and Delhi accounting for most of them.

Scores of domestic flights in and out of Beijing are canceled as officials ramp up attempts to contain a coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese capital over the past week that sparked fears of renewed wider contagion.

The report of a powerful treatment for the new coronavirus brings skepticism along with optimism among US doctors, who say the recent withdrawal of an influential Covid-19 study left them wanting to see more data.

With the country moving closer to the 100,000-mark of Covid-19 cases, healthcare experts are yet to know when the outbreak will reach its peak.

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” This comment by Vladimir Lenin, describing the Bolshevik revolution over 100 years ago, serves as an apt metaphor for the journey Bangladesh has had since March 8, when the country confirmed its first Covid-19 case.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, but quickly

The submission of the report on Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s rapid test kit for Covid-19 has been postponed for the third time in a row by BSMMU officials, frustrating the scientists who developed the kit well before most other countries.

The shortage of trained manpower at intensive care units (ICUs) compromises proper treatment of Covid-19 patients, among others, at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh says that it would take two to three more days to enforce complete lockdown in red zone areas.