At this time when countrymen are in distress amid the nationwide shutdown but many MPs are not seen in their constituencies, one lawmaker from Sylhet -- Mahmud Us Samad Chowdhury, parliamentarian for Sylhet-3 constituency -- has been an exception.

A 39-year-old Bangladeshi construction worker infected with coronavirus is transferred to the general ward from the intensive care unit of a hospital in Singapore.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is sending two consignments of emergency medicines to Bhutan for the safety of its senior citizens against the risks of Covid-19 infection.

The Bangladesh Bank decides to extend the banking operation across the country during the ongoing shutdown.

The government today declared the entire Bangladesh at risk of the coronavirus pandemic as the infection has now spread to various parts of the country.

Four employees of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) test positive for Covid-19.

Seventeen people, including ten police personnel of the same station, test positive for the novel coronavirus in Gopalganj district.

Despite the ongoing nationwide shutdown to contain the spread of coronavirus, dozens of shipbreaking yards have started to reopen at Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila today, compelling workers to rejoin work.

A police official in Manikganj’s Naokhanda Mouza has donated 10 decimals of his land to be used for burying unclaimed bodies of those who died after contracting coronavirus or showed symptoms of it.

A woman was diagnosed with Covid-19 days on Sunday night, days after giving birth to a child at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital last Friday.

Ten died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, DGHS says.

One more person tests positive for coronavirus in Shariatpur, bringing the district's total number of confirmed cases to six.

Two more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in Jaintiapur and Gowainghat upazilas in Sylhet, the district’s Civil Surgeon Premananda Mandal said today.

A pregnant nurse has died after contracting the coronavirus but her baby, a girl, was delivered successfully and is doing well, the British hospital where she worked says.

A total of seventy-seven Bangladeshis stranded in India due to the coronavirus outbreak return to the country through Benapole check post in Jashore.

The government will provide 50 lakh more ration cards to vulnerable families hit hard by the countrywide shutdown due to coronavirus outbreak, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says.

Two traffic constables under Chattogram Metropolitan Police test positive for coronavirus.

Twelve persons including a doctor test positive for novel coronavirus in different upazilas of Cumilla district.

A man dies by suicide in Chattogram’s Bashkhali upazila after he was left out of relief net.

The technical glitches that had created problems in the production of Covid-19 testing kits at the Gonoshasthaya Kendra pharmaceutical factory in Savar have been addressed, and the healthcare organisation plans to hand over the kits to the government for approval for mass production by April 23.