This year’s budget session will take place with the presence of only those lawmakers who are essential for the day-to-day activities of the parliament in a bid to maintain social distancing and curb the risk of coronavirus infection.

The government is planning to divide the entire country into three zones -- red, yellow and green – depending on the severity of the spread of the coronavirus infection, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

Ninety-one new cases, including those of five Rohingya refugees, have tested positive for Covid-19 at the IEDCR field office in Cox’s Bazar Government Medical College.

Twenty-two coronavirus patients died, 2,381 were infected and 816 recovered in 24 hours in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

The massive protests sweeping across US cities following the police killing of a black man in Minnesota have sent shudders through the health community and elevated fears that the huge crowds will lead to a new surge in cases of the coronavirus.

A professor of Dhaka University (DU) has died of Covid-19.

As the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 increase, economies around the world have started to feel the heat.

The building of trust, meaningful relationships between manufacturers and customers in the global apparel industry has played a vital role in the continuing success of the sector.

The budget for fiscal year (FY) 2021 is going to be presented in the backdrop of a situation which was previously not experienced in the history of Bangladesh.

It is a frightening prospect for a person showing the symptoms of the virus, having reported for testing for Covid-19, to be asked by the authorities to return after a month.

As the government has relaxed the shutdown from May 31, ignoring the advice of the expert committees formed to fight the Covid-19 outbreak, the country may now experience an explosion of new infections.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has called for establishing a plasma bank in every district and lowering prices of medicines being used to treat new coronavirus.

Mask use is now compulsory outdoors and in public gatherings, according to a circular issued by the Directorate General of Health Services on Saturday.

Road transport services resume across the country today after over two-month suspension due to Covid-19 outbreak with a whopping 60 percent increase in bus fares.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ruled out the possibility of opening educational institutions right now, saying that students are the future of the country and the government does not want to put them at risk.

For two months, the concept publicised over and over again was that staying home was the key to combating the spread of coronavirus.

The country saw its highest one-day death toll from Covid-19 and a record new cases of infections yesterday, the day the government eased the nationwide shutdown ignoring warnings from experts.

Major bus operators have accepted the new bus fare rate “considering passengers’ side” and already started selling ticket from counters.

Sixteen noted citizens today demanded justice for the incidents of attacks on minority communities, violence against woman, land grabbing, harassment of common people, and torture of journalists that happened during the coronavirus pandemic in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced a new stimulus package to waive Tk 2,000 crore bank interest -- for people affected badly by the nationwide shutdown enforced to contain the coronavirus pandemic.