Bangladesh Railway has decided to operate three special parcel trains to transport food, daily essentials and perishable goods to Dhaka from different districts amid the nationwide shutdown.

Tesla chief Elon Musk on Wednesday called the coronavirus confinement a "fascist" action and "an outrage" that infringes on personal freedom, one that will damage the economy.

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

Two police personnel who were infected with Covid-19 have died since yesterday.

US scientists hail a potential breakthrough in the coronavirus fight after a trial showed patients responding to an antiviral drug, fueling global hopes for a return to normal despite mounting deaths and abysmal economic figures.

An Indian government-run institute for medical sciences and technology claims to have developed a diagnostic kit for Covid-19 which can detect the contagion in 10 minutes.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says that the Tokyo Olympics cannot take place next year unless the coronavirus pandemic is contained, as the city’s governor called for an extension of the nationwide state of emergency.

A police constable of Chattogram Metropolitam Police Headquarters tests positive for coronavirus after his samples were tested at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID).

The recent back-and-forth debate over the use of face masks to prevent the spread of covid-19 has settled. In the beginning, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said that there was no need for people who are well to wear face masks.

It is unfortunate that Covid-19 came at a time when the conservative or right-wing forces are in power in several of the major countries of the world, including USA, UK, Brazil and India.

It is most unfortunate that many of the 17 dedicated hospitals for Covid-19 treatment in the country do not yet have their intensive care units

The coronavirus lockdown could lead to a 20% surge in domestic violence as victims remain trapped at home with their abusers, the United Nations predicted on Tuesday, warning the pandemic will have a “catastrophic impact” on women.

Amid all the doom and gloom of rising coronavirus cases in the country, 80-year-old Moslem Uddin yesterday returned home from the Rangpur Dedicated Corona Isolation Hospital, making a full recovery from the virus after 14 days of treatment.

It was a bolt from the blue! This pandemic has truly taken everybody to a surprise. The deadly germ didn’t take much time to spread all across the globe after it originated in China in December last year. Around 3 million people living in more than 200 countries have been infected so far, out of which about 200,000 innocent lives were perished.

The chief of the World Health Organization (WHO) defended the agency’s record in its response to the new coronavirus in a news briefing yesterday, saying it had acted “quickly and decisively”.

More than one and a half months after the detection of first Covid-19 case in Bangladesh, the government on Tuesday gave nods to three private hospitals for conducting coronavirus diagnosis tests on a limited scale.

As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases passed the 7,000 mark with record 641 new infections reported yesterday, the National Technical Advisory Committee has recommended scaling up case detection, isolation and treatment measures to tackle the crisis.

In a bid to avert job cuts and temporary closures during Covid-19 outbreak, the government yesterday directed ready-made garment factory owners to pay their workers’ salary by 60 percent for April.

Thousands of garment workers yesterday returned to work in industrial belts in Dhaka and elsewhere amid the nationwide shutdown, raising fears of a rapid spread of the novel coronavirus.

An 80-year-old man in Rangpur returns home after recovering from Covid-19 after 14 days of treatment.