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.

Nervous residents of China's pandemic epicentre of Wuhan queue up across the city to be tested for the coronavirus after a new cluster of cases sparked a mass screening campaign.

US President Donald Trump further hardens his rhetoric towards China saying he no longer wishes to speak with Xi Jinping and warning darkly he may cut ties over the rival superpower's handling of the coronavirus pandemic.

Despite the risk of the spread of the coronavirus, Chattogram’s Agrabad branch of Al Arafah Islami Bank has been continuing regular activities despite one of its staff testing Covid-19 positive.

There will be no Eid jamaat at Eidgah or open grounds this Eid-ul-Fitr due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Instead, people have been asked to offer Eid prayers at nearby mosques, following special instructions.

Two Rohingya refugees, who fled to Cox’s Bazar following persecution in Myanmar, tested positive for Covid-19 today.

The coronavirus pandemic is complicating Philippine efforts to move hundreds of thousands of people into evacuation centres where social distancing is hard to enforce as a strong typhoon pummeled through its eastern provinces.

The number of children detained has increased since public court proceedings were postponed in March amid Covid-19 outbreak in the country, Unicef Bangladesh says.

The government extends the ongoing suspension of all public transport till May 30 to contain the spread of Covid-19 in the country.

A writ petition is filed with the High Court seeking its directive to the authorities concerned to set up “yellow zones” at the entrance of every private hospital, clinic and diagnostic centre.

Canada proposes a global alliance to tackle the challenges in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic.

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

The coronavirus outbreak risks sparking a major global mental health crisis, the United Nations warns, calling for urgent action to address the psychological suffering brought on by the pandemic.

The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warns.

The novel coronavirus has killed at least 292,316 people, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University at 1300 GMT. At least 4,117,740 cases of

Indonesians who violate social distancing rules in the capital could soon find themselves forced to clean toilets to atone for their sins.

A large number of garbage management workers in the capital have been working without any protective gear, putting themselves at grave risk of contracting coronavirus and other diseases.

Pinning down the source of the coronavirus pandemic should help in working out how Covid-19 has “invaded the human species” so quickly, a senior WHO official told AFP.