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

A total of 731 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Maldives, India and Canada amid suspension on international flights due to Covid-19 pandemic, return home on five separate special flights.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Director General Chowdhury Abdullah Al Mamun says that people can go to their village homes on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr using “personal” vehicles following health directives.

Md Sharif Mahmud Apu, public relations officer of the home ministry, battles both dengue and coronavirus at the same time.

The main coronavirus treatment centre in southern Yemen has recorded at least 68 deaths in just over two weeks, the medical charity running the site says, more than double the toll announced by Yemeni authorities so far.

Beximco Pharmaceuticals yesterday handed over the first batch of its antiviral drug remdesivir that has shown the most promise in treating Covid-19 patients by cutting the duration of symptoms from 15 days to 11.

The numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths have more than doubled in less than two weeks.

A virus in distant Wuhan, China did not cause much of a stir initially; but five months on, with five million people infected and more than 3 lakhs dead globally, the coronavirus is a major concern for humanity all over the world. Caught in a stranglehold of death and distress, humans are feeling acutely nervous.

China and South Korea were the early frontlines in our pitched battle against Covid-19. Both countries had taken the hardest hit during the initial phase of the outbreak, but both were quick to rebound from the initial shock of it and soon cornered the mortal enemy with the swift stroke of their digital weapons.

The coronavirus rage is showing early signs of slowdown in most parts of Europe and South East Asia. Strict regimes of social distancing are being eased with reopening of schools and selected businesses, not without controversy though. But it is still advancing in the rest of the world and until an effective vaccine is universally available, it remains a threat to us all.

The outbreak of the coronavirus has put thousands of Bangladeshi migrant workers at risk of losing their jobs as the global economy struggles and is

The recent pandemic has hit the world hard and it is slowly changing the way we see things. Subconsciously, we are more driven to adopt a

Social distancing has proven to be an effective weapon for dampening the spread of coronavirus.

With butterflies in their stomachs, a host of clothing brands took up their shutters after one-and-a-half months after the government allowed them to reopen ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, their biggest sales season that rakes in one-third their total annual sales.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 328,220 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official

Malaysia reports 35 new coronavirus cases, including one Bangladeshi migrant, at an immigration detention centre after authorities rounded up undocumented migrants this month in areas under lockdown.

Researchers in Chattogram have decoded the complete genome sequence of Covid-19 samples collected from the port city and different upazilas in the district.

Three more Rohingya refugees tested positive for Covid-19 in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar today.

Another police personnel who was infected with Covid-19 died in Dhaka today.

Police are considering “movement pass” for those who need to go out for valid reasons -- to curb the number of people going out and thus lower the possibility of Covid-19 transmission.