Bangladesh persistently remained on the 10th position on the global ranking of the worst coronavirus-hit countries for five consecutive days from June 6 due to its high number of new cases.

A Supreme Court lawyer has filed a writ petition with the High Court asking that the government be asked to immediately lockdown the entire Dhaka city.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today proposed to allocate Tk 29,247 crore for the Health Services Division and Health Education and Family Welfare Division in the 2020-21 fiscal year.

The number of confirmed coronavirus infections in the United States tops two million, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.

Thirty-seven people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Want to get back to work? Put your staff in a cardboard box.

A team of Polish scientists has designed a remote-controlled ventilator they hope will allow doctors to help critically ill patients breathe, but from a distance, in a bid to make medical personnel safer during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mitul Akter’s father came to her chamber at Regent Hospital in the capital’s Mirpur yesterday morning. He tested positive for coronavirus a few days ago.

The first day of the lockdown in the capital’s East Rajabazar was enforced strictly yesterday, with no one except those on emergency duty, including doctors, nurses and journalists, allowed to go outside.

The Covid-19 death toll reached 1,012 with half of the deaths reported in the last 16 days.

Bangladesh has said the principle of burden- and responsibility-sharing should be central to the actions of the international community in addressing humanitarian situations.

The first day of experimental lockdown in the city’s East Rajabazar area was enforced strictly, with no residents except those in emergency duty allowed to go outside today.

The death toll from Covid-19 in Bangladesh Police now stands at 20 as another member of the force died from the infection.

The budget session for 2020-21 fiscal year has begun at Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban amid the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

The EU’s chief diplomat says he has assured China’s foreign minister the bloc does not want a “cold war”, as it accuses Beijing of waging a coronavirus disinformation campaign.

The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) today informed the High Court that there are a total of 733 intensive care unit (ICU) beds at government hospitals across the country.

Thirty-seven people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

A prominent politician in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, who tested positive for coronavirus infection, dies in a hospital in Chennai, becoming India's first sitting legislator to fall victim to the contagion.

Global economic growth could rebound next year -- but the number of people living in extreme poverty is expected to remain unchanged after a huge surge this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warns.

Population-wide facemask use could push Covid-19 transmission down to controllable levels for national epidemics and could prevent further waves of the pandemic disease when combined with lockdowns, according to a UK study.