BNP’s Dhaka North unit general secretary Ahsanul Hassan passed away after he was diagnosed with Covid-19.

With deaths due to Covid-19 rising in Chattogram, bereaved families are facing yet another grim reality -- not being able to bury their loved ones with full rituals due to the fear of exposing themselves to the virus. In many cases, families and community members have not been able to attend the funeral prayers either because of physical distancing measures or due to fear of the infection.

The health condition of Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested positive for Covid-19 on May 24, is now stable.

The country yesterday recorded 42 deaths due to Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day.

Facing setbacks in its plan to enforce containment zones in four districts from yesterday, the government is now working to impose a total lockdown in areas that will be marked red and partially in the ones marked yellow in a day or two.

Bangladesh is celebrated as a development success in South Asia and has outperformed many of its neighbours on social development indicators.

Cattle markets of Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts pose high risks during the ongoing community transmission of Covid-19 as social distancing and hygiene issues are hardly maintained.

Fourteen retired and three serving members of the Armed Forces have died with Covid-19 till today, Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate said in a release.

Three unions under Ukhia upazila and Teknaf municipality in Cox’s Bazar district -- areas inhabited by Rohingya refugees from Myanmar -- have been declared red zones to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has been admitted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka after he was diagnosed with Covid-19.

Former Sylhet city Mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran is being taken to Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka by a special helicopter of Air Force as his physical condition deteriorated due to Covid-19 infection.

Dr Mirza Nazim Uddin, a senior consultant (medicine) at Square Hospital in Dhaka, has died with Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at the hospital.

Local administration declares three areas in Narayanganj to be red zones, and imposed lockdown for the next 15 days starting today, to contain the growing number of coronavirus cases in those areas.

Creating employment opportunities in both private and public sectors, and attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) can be game changers even amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

A sub-inspector of police in Chattogram who died with coronavirus-like symptoms on Saturday, tested positive for coronavirus.

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

With 207 police personnel testing positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours, the total number of infected in the force jumped to 6,206 in the country till today.

Rab Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam, who continued drives against irregularities amid the shutdown, tested positive for Covid-19.

The numbers related to Covid-19 infections and deaths in Bangladesh, India and Pakistan disguise both widespread undercounting and a rate of growth that was frightening even before the recent lifting of restrictions, the Economist reported.

In the wake of rising Covid-19 deaths and infections across the country, the government today starts enforcing containment zones on a pilot basis in some areas of four districts, including Dhaka.