In the backdrop of a number of attacks on healthcare workers amidst the Covid-19 pandemic across India, the Indian cabinet today approved an ordinance amending an existing law to provide for stringent punishment -- including up to seven years imprisonment and Rs five lakh fine -- for perpetrators of such assaults.

A man in Narayanganj reportedly flees from his house after he tested positive for coronavirus and was informed in this regard.

A ten-month-old boy of Chattogram has tested Covid-19 positive.

A 38-year-old man and a police official have tested positive in Bandarban’s remote Thanchi upazila.

Thirteen people, including six healthcare professionals, have tested positive for coronavirus in Brahmanbaria district in the last 24 hours.

Seventeen police personnel of a station have been infected with coronavirus in Gopalganj, district officials have confirmed.

Government might extend the ongoing nationwide shutdown until May 5, in a bid to contain the spread of coronavirus.

At least 97 Bangladeshis have been tested Covid-19 positive in Bahrain, says a Bangladesh mission official in the Gulf country.

At least two people die in Khulna and Bogura with coronavirus symptoms since yesterday evening.

Missouri has become the first US state to sue the Chinese government over its handling of the coronavirus, saying that China’s response to the outbreak that originated in the city of Wuhan brought devastating economic losses to the state.

Narail’s Lohagarah upazila is declared locked down after three doctors and two staffers of Lohagarah Upazila Health Complex test positive for coronavirus.

Seventy-three percent of the total infected are from Dhaka division, says Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

A readymade garments (RMG) worker tests positive for coronavirus in Sadar upazila of Magura, making him the first confirmed coronavirus case in the district.

An unplanned grand experiment is changing Earth. As people across the globe stay home to stop the spread of the new coronavirus, the air has cleaned up, albeit temporarily. People are also noticing animals in places and at times they don’t usually. When people stay home, Earth becomes cleaner and wilder.

Two people including a banker have tested positive for coronavirus in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia and the district town.

A second wave of the coronavirus is expected to hit the United States next winter and could strike much harder than the first because it would likely arrive at the start of influenza season, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warns.

A local health worker of a non-government organisation has tested coronavirus positive in Mujibgangar upazila of Meherpur.

339 citizens of the United States have left Dhaka as the US government arranged a fourth special flight for those who opted to return amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The postponed Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and its equivalent examinations may begin at the end of next month.

As the country has been in the third stage of coronavirus transmission when the virus spreads quickly within the community, experts have called for the immediate launch of widespread antibody tests to clearly understand the extent of infection.