Brazil has seen a record number of coronavirus deaths as the pandemic that has swept across the world begins to hit Latin America with its full force.

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

A total of 14,096 people, including around 200 children -- accused of criminal charges -- have secured bail from the courts across the country in last six working days through virtual process after a 46-day gap.

The coronavirus pandemic has revealed three alarming connections between us and nature.

The current Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in huge suffering and devastation for humanity, with almost five million people infected worldwide and experts fearing a deep global recession.

Once the Covid-19 pandemic is under control, and the world economy is back on its tracks, the status and fate of the 2030 Agenda, also known as Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), needs to be reassessed.

A team of doctors under the banner of “Patuakhalibasir Daktar” (Doctors for the People of Patuakhali) are providing telemedicine services to the people of the district, facilitating treatment for general patients during the adverse situation amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

The district administration on Monday again shut down all shops and markets in Pabna for an indefinite period after finding gross violations of safe physical distancing and health safety measures that it made prerequisites for reopening the shops and markets on May 10.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 318,517 people so far, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT yesterday.

A Chinese laboratory has been developing a drug it believes has the power to bring the coronavirus pandemic to a halt.

As the lockdown to curb the spread of coronavirus continues to have an impact on people from all walks of life, a generation of working women is learning that their “work-from-home” is not quite the same as that of men.

The risk of smokers contracting Covid-19 is two times higher than non-smokers, said Prof Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Let’s talk about the young people fighting on the frontlines of the Covid-19 outbreak.

At least 145 more police personnel have won the battle against Covid-19 and left hospital today.

World Health Organization member states agreed Tuesday to an independent probe into the UN agency's coronavirus response as US criticism mounted over its handling of the pandemic.

Thailand’s cabinet approved a plan to restructure troubled Thai Airways International Pcl’s (THAI.BK) finances through a bankruptcy court, the Southeast Asian country’s prime minister says.

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

The total number of coronavirus patients across India crosses the one lakh mark with 4,970 more cases in the last 24 hours, according to health ministry data.

US President Donald Trump, in a surprise announcement, says he is taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medicine against the coronavirus despite medical warnings about the use of the malaria drug.

President Donald Trump threatens to permanently freeze US funding to the World Health Organization unless "substantive improvements" are made within the next 30 days.