The Directorate General and Health Service has issued technical guidelines in order to reopen businesses, educational institutions, public transportation, and passenger flight services amid the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals, one of the leading drug manufacturing companies of the country, successfully produces Remdesivir, the drug used to treat coronavirus.

The assistant teacher candidates appearing in the 2018 recruitment test of primary schools have lend their hands for harvesting Boro paddy in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat today.

At least 144 more police personnel were infected with Covid-19 in the last 24-hours across the country, according to a tally of the Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

As part of its biggest ever repatriation exercise dubbed as “Vande Bharat Mission”, India has begun repatriating citizens who were stranded globally -- including Bangladesh -- due to lockdown imposed to check the spread of coronavirus infection.

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

Chattogram Port workers stage a demonstration demanding proper safety measures required to maintain physical distance following the death of a fellow worker who was diagnosed with Covid-19.

The fallout from Covid-19 has muffled the sound of looms and the buzz of the clothing markets this year during the peak business season for apparels, Eid-ul-Fitr.

Some 96 garment workers and a staffer of a factory were found Covid-19 positive between April 9 and yesterday in the country, read a report of Bangladesh Garment Shramik Sanghati (BGSS).

Private universities that have completed 70 percent of academic activities of current semester and have been conducting online classes successfully for theoretical courses will be able to evaluate their students via viva and presentations online.

The 13 deaths reported yesterday were an unexpected spike in the number of Covid-19 fatalities after over a week in single digits.

Stating that Covid-19 pandemic was badly affecting the police department, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday instructed the authorities to give priority to the treatment of police members.

The coronavirus pandemic will drive an additional 13 million people into poverty, cut 3.7 million jobs, take budget deficit to as high as 7.5 per cent and inflict a minimum revenue loss of 2 per cent of GDP in Bangladesh as the killer bug is wreaking havoc throughout the economy, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has warned.

At a time when many sectors have come to a standstill due to the countrywide lockdown, production and supply of medicines across the country have been going off without a hitch, thanks to a timely plan of action undertaken by the Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA).

The catastrophic public health impact of the Covid-19 crisis has sent the world reeling, but its full ramifications have only begun to unfold.

In America, one of the politically charged reactions to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has been the denigration of urban population density.

Coca-Cola in Bangladesh has pledged an initial support of Tk 11.5 crores towards helping the healthcare system and local communities through food package and distribution of beverages to combat the coronavirus crisis, said a press release.

The WHO South-East Asia Region is entering a new phase in its pandemic response. In recent weeks, the spread of Covid-19 in the region has slowed, due in large part to the unprecedented physical distancing measures that countries implemented early and aggressively.

As the government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and businesses on a limited scale from May 10 ahead of the Eid,

Cultivated fishes including carp and shrimp in a number of enclosures in Bagerhat are dying due to scarcity of water amid the hot weather prevailing for the last couple of weeks.