The Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court forms 15 more virtual courts which will function digitally from tomorrow to deal with the increasing number of bail petitions.

Mohammad Ali Hospital, a 250-bed hospital in Bogura dedicated to treating coronavirus patients, has halted collecting samples owing to a backlog in testing at the only RT-PCR lab in the district at the Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College.

Renowned television personality Mustafa Kamal Syed passed away at Square Hospital in Dhaka at the age of 75.

Former secretary M Bazlul Karim Chowdhury, who tested positive with coronavirus, dies at Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka.

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

A Chinese-made coronavirus vaccine could be ready for market as early as the end of this year, China's State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) said in a social media post.

A local journalist dies at the isolation ward of Chandpur Sadar Hospital with respiratory problems.

India has begun preparing a national forecast model to help monitor the future transmission of Covid-19 and assist governments in decision-making on readiness of the national health systems and other mitigation measures.

Train and launch services have resumed on a limited scale after being suspended more than two months back following the coronavirus outbreak.

Not wearing a mask while in public is now illegal, according to a circular issued by the Directorate General of Health Services.

A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that needs living cells like humans, animals, plants and even other microorganisms including bacteria for budding. Viruses are much smaller than bacteria which contain DNA or RNA genome.

The authorities in Savar upazila of Dhaka started asking the city dwellers to wait from a few weeks to even a month before being tested for coronavirus after showing symptoms.

The government has relaxed the countrywide shutdown at a time when the number of Covid-19 patients is increasing at a faster rate than ever.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to engage the local public representatives in a greater way to contain the spread of novel coronavirus.

On the same day the Cabinet Division issued a circular on relaxing the shutdown, the government’s very own National Technical Advisory Committee on May 28 warned of an explosion of cases if health and safety measures were not implemented strictly.

Study suggests between 40 and 60pc of the population could be immunized without being exposed to virus

Regions of Italy with higher family fragmentation and a high number of residential nursing homes experienced the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in people over age 80, according to a new study published recently in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

The world is experiencing an unprecedented health challenge as the global coronavirus pandemic continues to spread. To date, it has spread rapidly in almost all countries in the world, causing the number of cases and deaths to increase exponentially.

We have to talk about the post-corona time, even though Bangladesh has not reached the peak in infection and deaths caused by the pandemic.

Medical personnel treating coronavirus cases in China have higher rates of anxiety and other mental health symptoms than the general population, according to a new study published recently in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.