A Saudi expatriate, who died on Monday morning at his home in Enayet Bazar area of Chattogram city, is found Covid-19 positive.

It is 58 days since the first Covid-19 infection was recorded in Bangladesh. February now feels like a distant memory, even early March.

At a time when most of humanity is subdued because of the ongoing pandemic, Bidyanondo Foundation has been one of the first responders to the crisis, providing food and medical safety gear to people who needed them the most.

The picture in yesterday’s front page says it all. Hundreds of garment workers leaving their factory in Ashulia in crowds, totally disregarding the government’s social distancing directives.

While countries around the world work to contain and limit the spread of COVID-19, certain human rights and allowable derogations become

The economic hardships due to the countrywide shutdown are pushing many towards extreme poverty. As unemployment mounts, many are being forced to innovate to find a way to sustain their lives.

Much has been written about the garment sector’s export orders hitting a brick wall for the global coronavirus pandemic.

When workers enter Paramount Textile’s plant in Sreepur, Gazipur, they would need to go through a temperature testing procedure using a thermal scanner, wash hands properly and disinfect their shoes.

Despite repeated calls from the union leaders for paying the workers of closed factories at least 65 percent of their gross salaries for April, the owners at a meeting yesterday refused to offer any more than 60 percent.

Bangladesh wants labour-receiving countries to ensure that Bangladeshi migrants who lose their jobs amid the coronavirus pandemic get at least six months’ salary.

While the government has extended the ongoing shutdown to May 16 to ensure social distancing, many continue to crowd roads amid the growing number of Covid-19 cases in the country.

The world watched in paralysed horror as oil prices plummeted to below zero: the price of West Texas Intermediate oil grade went negative to –USD 37.63 per barrel (pb), for the first time in history. The shock of the collapse was intense, leading to traders naming the day “Black Monday”.

While health officials still do not know when the coronavirus outbreak will peak and then plateau, confirmed coronavirus cases crossed the 10,000 mark with the announcement of a record 688 new cases yesterday.

Lockdown, first instituted by the Chinese government, has become an unprecedented yet effective intervention for prevention of the transmission of Covid-19 throughout the world.

The government has decided to reopen shopping malls, all types of shops and other businesses from May 10 on a limited scale ahead of the Eid-ul-Fitr.

Italy’s coronavirus death toll is much higher than reported, statistics bureau ISTAT says in an analysis pointing to thousands of fatalities that have never been officially attributed to Covid-19.

United Nations leaders call for a global effort to develop and distribute to all at affordable prices vaccines, treatments and testing kits against Covid-19.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen urges Non-Allied Movement (NAM) members to find innovative solutions and approaches to tackle the coronavirus pandemic.

Deputy commissioner of Habiganj district tests positive for Covid-19 and is placed in home quarantine.

The Vietnamese people are now celebrating the 45th anniversary of the Great Victory on April 30, 1975, the liberation of the South, the reunification of the country and the 130th birthday of President Ho Chi Minh on May 19.