As the clock hits 12:30pm, a group of people can be seen busily organising meal-plates at the Mazaa restaurant in front of Mohammadpur Tajmahal Road’s Krishi Market.

The newly appointed Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed today directed police to ensure the ongoing shutdown is enforced to control the spread of coronavirus.

The Police Headquarters in a statement ask people not to allow strangers in their homes.

Dhaka University authorities have locked down the house tutor’s building of Amar Ekushey Hall after a guest there tested positive for coronavirus.

Inclement weather. Lack of buyers. Shortage of workers. And impending flashfloods. These very real developments, coupled with a belief that prices of their harvest are set to fall, have Boro farmers in Sylhet’s haor region looking down the barrel. The government-declared stimulus package and assurances of buying up a huge amount of paddy and rice, which are meant to help, also ring hollow to many farmers.

While businesses across the globe are hit hard by fallout from coronavirus outbreak, Netflix hits an all-time high in the US stock market, becoming more valuable than rival entertainment giant Disney.

A coalition of leading development organisations today called on the government and other development actors to prioritise needs of the marginalised with taking comprehensive, inclusive and far-sighted measures to protect extreme poor population in rural and urban areas amid evolving coronavirus situation.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has advised all city dwellers not to be on the streets with their vehicles during the ongoing closure unless for emergencies, or else they may face legal action for defying the directive.

Six recent studies by the Brac James P Grant School of Public Health (JPGSPH), Brac University and Bangladesh Health Watch (BHW) explore the toll the coronavirus outbreak is taking on the general and mental health of people in Bangladesh.

Defying the nationwide shutdown to curb the transmission of Covid-19, thousands of people today took part in the janaza of Bangladesh Khelafat Majlish’s ‘Nayeb-e Amir’ Maulana Zubayer Ahmad Ansari, held at a madrasa in Bertola village under Sorail upazila of Brahmanbaria district.

The House went into its seventh session this afternoon for a very brief period due to spread of Covid-19 in different parts of the country.

The word quarantine first came around to use in Italy’s Venice in 1127. It was used in response to Leprosy and was later heavily used during the Black Death. It took another 300 years until the UK properly began to impose quarantine measures in response to plague.

A Bangladeshi labour counsellor working in Jeddah has been infected with Covid-19, foreign ministry says.

A 35-year-old man dies, a day after he was sent to the isolation centre of Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital in Sylhet with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Nine died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, IEDCR says.

The Indian health ministry says the rate at which the number of coronavirus cases in the country was doubling has slowed post the nationwide lockdown.

The Nigerian president's chief of staff, Abba Kyari, died after contracting the new coronavirus, two presidency spokesmen says on Twitter.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro calls for the reopening of the country's borders, as he pushes to restart South America's largest economy.

A Trauma Centre located at Mohipal in Sadar upazila of Feni is declared as an isolation unit for the treatment of coronavirus-infected patients.

Two more people in Faridpur test positive for coronavirus infection, bringing the total number of infected in the district to four.