“Ma’am, could you possibly tell me when would the university go back to its usual routine?”

After a month of corona-induced lockdown, Bangladesh’s infection rates and death records are proportionally still lower than many other countries, according to official data.

While the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) claims that providing oxygen to patients will not be a problem, patients and doctors beg to differ.

To support the COVID-19 affected economy, some experts are suggesting that the government of Bangladesh should go for printing money. However, I feel that there is no need to take such a radical measure since Bangladesh has a number of policy tools at its hand at the moment to heat up the economy.

When COVID-19 reached some of the most protected and powerful people of the world like the resident of Number 10, Downing Street and the best known royal Prince Charles or forced Prime Minister Trudeau to self-isolate, many people described this virus as a great leveller.

Healthcare providers at community clinics across the country are risking their lives—and that of their loved ones—by providing services to

As the novel coronavirus spread through New York City in late March, doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital noticed something strange happening to patients’ blood.

Farmers who have cultivated black tiger shrimp for the export markets in the hope of making profits were dealt with a massive blow by the coronavirus pandemic, which has shattered their dreams by devastating the supply chain and prompting a collapse in demand.

A person who later turned out to be coronavirus-positive had gone to Dhaka Medical College Hospital on April 8 after having visited a few other hospitals.

The historic iftar market in capital’s Chawkbazar area remained almost empty on the first day of Ramadan amid shutdown for coronavirus.

On April 14, a doctor at the surgery department of Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital sent The Daily Star a list of protective gear they were supplied that day.

Bangladesh appears to be the only country in the world where the Covid-19 death rate is higher than the recovery rate.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) has launched an investigation to find out whether the garment factories that are going for temporary closures following mass order cancellations are doing so by the book.

Ignoring the risks of contracting and spreading the coronavirus, hundreds of garment factory workers left their villages yesterday on foot or jammed into whatever vehicle they could get to join work in Dhaka and its outskirts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s private sector adviser Salman F Rahman says the country’s export-oriented factories must begin to open slowly and by maintaining necessary health protocols in order to save the economy.

Twenty-six former and current ambassadors to the UN, including Bangladesh Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen, launch a music video with a cover of Michael Jackson’s “Heal the World”, in tribute to all those contributing to healing the world -- doctors, nurses, healthcare workers.

A total 28 people, including 5 doctors, 3 policemen, and 4 magistrates, are found to have tested positive for Covid-19 in Jamalpur and Habiganj districts.

A total of 198 British citizens who were stranded in Bangladesh leave Dhaka for London on a special flight.

The World Health Organization (WHO) warns that there is no evidence that people who test positive for the new coronavirus are immunised and protected against reinfection.

Authorities of two readymade garment factories in Savar's Ashulia have laid off around 1,100 workers citing economic fallout due to the coronavirus pandemic.