Disaster resilience and climate change have been and continue to be high on the development agenda for Bangladesh.

Internet is keeping the world somewhat walking in the darkest hours of the Covid-19 pandemic. And mobile telephony is the tool that is keeping Bangladesh limping.

A team of Bangladeshi scientists at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) has successfully managed to complete the genome sequencing of SARS-CoV-2 i.e. Coronavirus in Bangladesh very recently.

With the pandemic-induced lockdown battering livelihoods and choking cash flow across the board, the tax authority is working to give a breathing room to businesses and individual taxpayers in the low-income bracket.

Imagine entering a market in your locality that has essentials like rice, potatoes, vegetables, facemasks, and soaps maintaining social distance, and that too for free!

Two physicians, who are Covid-19 survivors, donated plasma at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday for the trial of Convalescent Plasma Therapy (CPT) aimed at treating coronavirus patients.

Covid-19 cases have risen 30 times in 12 densely populated areas in the capital over the last five weeks, according to data from the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.

Issuing a warning that Covid-19 threatens to reverse development gains made by Bangladesh in the last 50 years, World Food Programme has appealed for $320 million to help the most vulnerable.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 307,321 people since the outbreak first emerged last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 1100 GMT yesterday.

SARS-CoV-2 has so far infected more than 4,500,000 people in 187 countries and caused over 300,000 deaths, but no drug or vaccine is yet available. In Bangladesh, over 20,000 people have been infected and 250 died. Lockdown can provide a temporary solution but we need a sustainable solution for this.

Transparency International Bangladesh demands exemplary punishment for those involved in irregularities in preparing lists of beneficiaries of the government’s cash support for 50 lakh poor families.

Describing the sorry state of marketing of seasonal fruits due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the agriculture ministry today made 10 recommendations, including reduced toll at Bangabandhu Bridge on return food-laden truck and inclusion of seasonal fruits in relief items.

Barrister Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh took office as the mayor of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) today.

Migrant rights groups want a comprehensive plan and transparent mechanism to reintegrate the migrants who are returning from abroad after losing jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A group of youths under the banner of Bangladesh Chhatra Union of Cox’s Bazar district have come forward to provide free iftar and sehri to around 200 homeless people per day.

The traffic police constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police who had Covid-19 symptoms and died at Chattogram General Hospital early on Friday was infected with the virus, test confirmed.

Within a matter of three days, a student of Dhaka University lost his father, who died after being diagnosed with Covid-19, and then his elder brother, who passed away after suffering from coronavirus-like symptoms.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has extended the ongoing closure for all courts across the country including the Appellate and High Court Divisions of the Supreme Court till May 30.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque inaugurates the newly constructed isolated building to treat Covid-19 patients at Anwar Khan Modern Medical College Hospital in Dhaka.

It is important for nations to work together and do as much as possible to make the world healthier and free from Covid-19, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted today, responding to US President Donald Trump who said his country would donate ventilators to India in the fight against the pandemic.