Most of the shopping malls and markets in Chattogram city will remain closed till Eid-ul-Fitr, despite the government allowing markets to reopen from tomorrow.

The Covid-19 induced shutdown has forced pretty much everyone into the confines of their homes or shelters, except for wildlife. Even though, there aren’t so many people out there to celebrate the wild right now, the wild rages on in its full (or what remains) glory.

EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to salvage some of the summer tourism season, the bloc’s executive will say next week.

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

An order by the police in West Bengal, asking its personnel to play a “Covid-19 awareness song” penned by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Rabindranath Tagore's 159th birth anniversary, has sparked a row in the state.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd will try to produce any drug that can treat Covid-19, says Simeen Hossain, managing director and chief executive officer of the company.

Indian government-run Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has given its green signal to a multi-institutional project to develop human monoclonal antibodies (hmAbs) that it claims can neutralise coronavirus in patients.

Thousands of migrants stranded “all over the world” are facing a heightened risk of Covid-19 infection, says António Vitorino, director general of International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN migration agency.

To render medicare to non-Covid-19 patients living in remote areas, Cox’s Bazar district administration has initiated a mobile hospital service.

Major social advances have often emerged from the depths of disaster: the Black Death brought an end to serfdom, and Britain’s welfare state emerged from the ruins of World War II.

The government may introduce a coronavirus tax on tobacco products and several luxury goods while giving tax cuts to internet services.

The government has recently issued a set of guidelines on health safety measures that have to be strictly followed after the reopening of industries, businesses, educational institutions and services amid the coronavirus outbreak.

One and a half months into the closure of in-person classes due to the coronavirus outbreak, the majority of schools, colleges and universities across the country have yet to introduce online education.

Incredulous, is what one would sigh when chancing upon April’s export receipts, which hit rock-bottom at $520.01 million.

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc in the lives of millions with devastating economic and social impacts. Although no country or people have been spared from its rampage, it is being experienced differently in terms of gender, class and socioeconomic situations.

It is worrying that as the country is preparing to ease the lockdown before Eid to mitigate the economic fallout of the crisis, the ground realities

Dhaka New Market Business Association decides not to reopen the markets from May 10 due to the growing number of Covid-19 infected persons in Dhaka and elsewhere.

A decision of waiving 40 percent house rent for workers in Savar industrial area is taken with a view to reduce their burden during the crisis period of coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 99 prisoners have been released from Bogura district jail to lower coronavirus transmission possibility in jail.

All seven members of a family have recovered from Covid-19 following 11 days of treatment at a Chattogram hospital.