Amid a worsening healthcare crisis in the city, Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) and community leaders have teamed up to turn two community centres into isolation centres, in a bid to deal with the increasing number of Covid-19 patients.

India’s federal government yesterday said it will provide New Delhi’s city authorities with 500 railway coaches that will be equipped to care for coronavirus patients, after a surge in the number of cases led to a shortage of hospital beds.

The visiting Chinese medical experts have said the use of Ritonavir, Resochin, Ribavirin, and Arbidol can be effective to some extent.

The Indian health ministry has recommended anti-viral drug remdesivir, under emergency use authorisation, to treat Covid-19 patients who are in moderate stage of the illness.

The country is yet to reach the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak due to the government’s “unscientific” and “vague” strategy from the beginning, say experts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said keeping away people from getting infected with coronavirus and running the wheels of economy simultaneously is a “war”.

Amid rising coronavirus cases and fatalities, a technical committee of the government has primarily identified 45 areas in the capital as red zones.

A Bangladeshi man who went to Singapore to seek medical treatment that was not related to Covid-19 later tested positive for the coronavirus, making him the first imported case in the country since May 10.

The Indian health ministry has recommended use of anti-viral drug remdesivir under emergency use authorisation to treat Covid-19 patients in moderate stage as the country emerged as fourth worst-hit nation by the pandemic with more than 3.20 lakh cases.

Authorities have categorised 45 areas in Dhaka city as red zones over coronavirus infections. Of those, 17 areas are under Dhaka North City Corporation while 28 are under Dhaka South City Corporation.

Authorities have categorised 11 areas under Chattogram City Corporation as red zones for Covid-19 infection.

State Minister for Religious Affairs Sheikh Md Abdullah was laid to rest at his family graveyard in Gopalganj this afternoon.

Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital Director Prof Uttam Kumar Barua has been infected with coronavirus.

The whole world is currently in a war against the novel coronavirus, a potential threat to a stable and growing economy. The havoc wreaked by the virus has pushed people to go into quarantine and contact by and large with the outside world is at standstill.

The government is going extend the closure of all educational institutions in the country in a bid to curb further spread of Covid-19. The decision in this regard is to be taken tomorrow.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has told the parliament that the government would put the worst affected areas under lockdown to contain further spread of Covid-19.

Nine areas under Bogura municipality have been declared “red zone” to stop the rapid rise of Covid-19 infection.

Thirty-two people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

A doctor of Jemison Red Crescent Maternity Hospital in Chattogram died from a Covid-19 infection early today morning.

Defence secretary Abdullah Al Mohsin Chowdhury, who is fighting against Covid-19 at the ICU of Combined Military Hospital (CMH), has been promoted to senior secretary.