A manufacturer of a possible Covid-19 vaccine being developed by British scientists says it may know by the end of May if it can make a million doses a month with a view to building stocks for commercial supply when the vaccine is approved.

A total 115 new case are reported positive for Covid-19 in four districts of Sylhet division as per tests conducted at different laboratories in Dhaka and Sylhet on Friday.

A total of 224 citizens of the UK and 26 US citizens leave Dhaka on separate chartered flights arranged by the governments of the respective countries for those who opted to return home amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

Malaysia has detained hundreds of refugees and migrant workers for illegally living in the country, rights groups say, at a time of movement and travel restrictions imposed to contain the spread of the new coronavirus.

The pandemic of Covid-19 is clearly still a global health emergency and is of particular concern as it spreads more widely in countries with weak health systems, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Shahiduzzaman Sarker, lawmaker of Naogaon-2 constituency, has said that he tested positive for Covid-19.

With more and more police personnel being infected with the highly contagious virus, the 250-bed police hospital in Dhaka is struggling to accommodate patients.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has given a set of guidelines on ways to prevent the spread of Covid-19 in the workplace.

India announces an extension to the ongoing 40-day nationwide lockdown for two more weeks from May 4 onwards due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Dhaka Bar Association announces Tk 12.29 crore loans for its 5,485 lawyers for a year to face the situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

A total of 141 police personnel, including 68 of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP), have tested positive for Covid-19 in the 24 hours leading up to 2:30pm today, raising the number of confirmed cases of police to 677 across the country.

The Bangladesh High Commission in New Delhi takes up with concerned Indian authorities the issue of using bus on Petrapole-Benapole route for bringing back the remaining stranded Bangladeshis in India due to Covid-19-forced lockdown.

Perhaps Bangladesh has the highest number of people out of jobs thanks to the protracted shutdown that has taken away income opportunities for tens of thousands of people, particularly in the informal sector. Or, perhaps not.

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

Local administration of Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila has introduced a digital monitoring system in order to prevent relief misappropriation in the area during Covid-19 outbreak.

Scientists at Satyendra Nath Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences (SNBNCBS) in India’s Kolkata claim to have developed a safe and cost-effective nanomedicine that could treat Covid-19 and a few other diseases.

Another police official infected with Covid-19 dies at Central Police Hospital.

US President Donald Trump said on Thursday his hard-fought trade deal with China was now of secondary importance to the coronavirus pandemic and he threatened new tariffs on Beijing, as his administration crafted retaliatory measures over the outbreak.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin tells President Vladimir Putin that he has been diagnosed with the new coronavirus and is temporarily stepping down to recover.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says Britain is now past the peak of its coronavirus outbreak and promises to set out a lockdown exit strategy next week, despite rising deaths and criticism of his government’s response.