Dharmaraj Tanchangya, moved by the state of some indigenous communities hit-hard by the coronavirus outbreak, put up some of his photograph for sale on his Facebook account.

The coronavirus has now taken 300,000 lives globally, according to official figures. But depending on the way deaths are counted, the real human cost could be far greater.

The Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) has so far provided interest free loans to more than 600 Supreme Court lawyers with the SCBA ranks so they can face the ongoing financial crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Fifteen people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours while the total number of infected has crossed the grim milestone of 20,000, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Amnesty International expresses concern about media reports on hospitals in Bangladesh not admitting people exhibiting Covid-19 symptoms.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday announced that the government would provide Tk 2,500 crore to two specialised banks to help the youths and expatriate Bangladeshis who became jobless amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh faces the challenge of massive job creation as several lakh migrant workers are likely to return in the coming months following a sharp decline in overseas jobs due to the coronavirus-induced global economic slowdown, experts said.

It is the peak time of earning profit from selling shitol pati (cool mat) but the weavers here cannot sell a single piece of shitol pati due to ongoing countrywide shutdown to curb the spread of coronavirus.

The French government cried foul yesterday after its homegrown pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said it would reserve first shipments of any COVID-19 vaccine for the United States, slamming the move as “unacceptable” in a crisis that has killed nearly 300,000 people worldwide.

India will provide free food grains to millions of migrant workers hardest hit by a weeks-long lockdown as well as offer employment under a rural jobs programme, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said yesterday.

Without data, companies are deaf and blind, it is often taught in business schools.

The pandemic, it seems, was the big bang the digital Bangladesh charge needed to level up.

Although Dhaka has by far the highest number of coronavirus cases in the country, two neighbourhoods at the heart of the city have managed to crush the Covid-19 curve.

The European Union’s medicines agency suggested yesterday that a vaccine for the coronavirus could be ready in year, even as the World Health Organization warned that the disease may never go away.

A Rohingya refugee has tested positive for the novel coronavirus at the Ukhiya refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar.

One of the institutional casualties of the global Covid-19 pandemic is people’s right to information.

Fifty-three-year old Anisur Rahman has been suffering from fever for the last few days. He also had cough, muscle pain and breathing complications.

Like most countries, Bangladesh is going through an unprecedented crisis following the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of both health and economic outcomes, with increasing number of infected cases and deaths from Covid-19, and severe economic losses in terms of production, exports and remittances, resulting in considerable unemployment, loss of income and rising poverty.

The government is hopeful that it would be able to “experimentally start” using convalescent plasma therapy for treating coronavirus patients from next week.

A team of Bangladeshi scientists at the Child Health Research Foundation (CHRF) led by Dr Senjuti Saha has successfully managed to complete the