Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has tested positive for Covid-19 as per the report from the organisation’s newly developed Rapid Dot Blot test.

Despite the joyous occasion of Eid, frontline fighters in the battle against the coronavirus carry on with their jobs -- doctors, nurses and hospital staff celebrate Eid with Covid-19 patients, who are away from their families just like the people in charge of their wellbeing.

Eid is here, yet a sense of huge emptiness engulfs each of us. Happiness, where has it gone?

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

India overtakes Iran to become one of the 10 worst-hit nations as it recorded the biggest single-day jump in the number of coronavirus positive cases for the fourth consecutive day with 6,977 new patients across the country in the last 24 hours, taking the total to nearly 1.38 lakh cases.

A constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), who passed away at Chattogram General Hospital with Covid-19-like symptoms on May 23, tested positive for the virus yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a televised speech to the countrymen on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious celebration of the Muslims, has stressed on following health guidelines amid the Covid-19 outbreak on an individual level to stay safe.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Limited, one of the leading drug manufacturing companies of the country, received approval to market remdesivir, an effective drug for treating coronavirus.

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

A Covid-19 patient who escaped from Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal was found at his house in Bhola today.

Another police officer, who was tested Covid-19 positive, died at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka this morning.

Thirty-three more people have tested positive with Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar.

Thirty-six more policemen in Chattogram have tested positive for coronavirus.

Brazil has become the world no. 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry says.

India’s Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the government will try to resume international passenger flights -- suspended since March due to coronavirus outbreak -- before August this year.

Staying mentally strong is of utmost importance in order to recover from Covid-19, an Awami League lawmaker who was diagnosed with the virus has said following his recovery.

A Dhaka University team has decoded genome sequence of five samples of Sars-CoV-2.

A total 279 Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (BAVDP) members have been infected with Covid-19 after 11 more of the force tested positive in the last 24 hours in the country.

Coronavirus infections are on the rise in prisons as four more jail guards and one inmate tested positive in last 24 hours in the country.

Two lower court judges have tested positive with Covid-19 while the condition of a High Court judge infected with the virus is improving, Law Minister Anisul Huq said today.