Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) expresses concern over ruling Awami League’s announcement to form partisan “relief committee” at ward level to help local administration in relief distribution.

Five people, including two of a family, test positive for Coronavirus in Jamalpur, bringing the total number of cases in the district to 21.

The local administration puts Banshkhali upazila of Chattogram under lockdown in an effort to contain the spread and transmission of coronavirus.

Sixty-three Bangladeshis reportedly have tested positive for Covid-19 in Malaysia.

A total of 542 Canadian and Australian citizens, who were stranded in Bangladesh following the outbreak of coronavirus, leave Dhaka for their respective countries on separate chartered flights.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has extended his shutdown order in the US coronavirus outbreak epicenter until May 15, citing data showing improved conditions but insisting on the need to maintain vigilance.

A 33-year-old man, who died in an isolation ward at a hospital in Chandpur on Tuesday, tests negative for coronavirus.

The doctors and nurses at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram have been resilient in discharging their duties in the Covid-19 isolation ward, although they are having to manage their own as there is no support from the hospital authorities.

Seven Bangladeshis, who returned from India today through Akhaura border of Brahmanaria under special arrangement, have been sent to institutional quarantine in a bid to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Two people, who were in an isolation ward at Khulna Medical College Hospital after having breathing difficulties, die.

Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media says, but Beijing dismisses claims that there has been any kind of cover-up.

The British government was too slow to react on a number of fronts to the novel coronavirus outbreak that could cause the deaths of 40,000 people in the United Kingdom, a leading public health professor says.

Fifteen people died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 75, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says during a briefing.

Local administration locked down Joypurhat district after two people tested coronavirus positive for the first time at Zindapur union under Kalai upazila of the district last night.

A total of 17 more people -- including a doctor -- have been identified as coronavirus positive in Lakshmipur yesterday.

US-Bangla Airlines will operate eight special flights on the Chennai-Dhaka and Kolkata-Dhaka routes from April 20 – 25, to bring back over 1,000 stranded Bangladeshis.

A 65-year-old Covid-19 positive patient died at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram this morning.

Police recover 50 sacks of vulnerable group development (VGD) rice, weighing 1,500 kg, from an empty house in Gaibandha’s Sundarganj upazila.

A 28-year-old man tested Covid-19 positive in Feni's Chagolnaiya upazila last night, making him the first confirmed coronavirus case in the district.

The medicine unit of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital was locked down last night after a patient treated in the unit tested Covid-19 positive.