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Coronavirus Outbreak: Low test rate may be belying reality

“We have a simple message for all countries: test, test, test.”
31 March 2020, 18:00 PM

Flower industry wilting

If you happen to be in the southwest village Godkhali or its neighbourhood Panisara, you will find there is no dearth of colours from the stretches of rose, tuberose, marigold, gerbera and gladiolus gardens.
31 March 2020, 18:00 PM

Pabna Jubo League leader held for ‘spreading rumours on coronavirus’

Police have arrested a leader of Jubo League from Pabna for allegedly spreading rumours about coronavirus on social media.
31 March 2020, 16:05 PM

CMP to provide free transportation for doctors, medical staff

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) will provide free transportation for doctors and medical staff in the port city so they can go to their workplaces without any hassle during the ongoing shutdown.
31 March 2020, 15:55 PM

Bangladesh to locally manufacture ventilators soon

The government today received the patent, design and source code of making ventilators from Medtronic, an international medical device company, and can now locally manufacture local manufacturing it to better face the coronavirus outbreak.
31 March 2020, 15:26 PM

Chhayanaut cancels Pahela Baishakh programme for first time since Independence

Chhayanaut today cancelled their Pahela Baishakh celebrations scheduled to welcome Bangla New Year 1427 at Ramna Batamul due to the coronavirus outbreak.
31 March 2020, 15:24 PM

Navana Group preparing 100-bed hospital in Ctg for Covid-19 patients

Navana Group, one of the largest private-sector corporations of the country, is preparing a 100-bed isolated field hospital at Faujdarhat in Chattogram for treatment of coronavirus patients.
31 March 2020, 15:17 PM

Coronavirus: Brac distributes food package among 7,500 slum-dwellers in Dhaka

Brac Urban Development Programme (UDP) today started the essential food package distribution campaign among people in two slums --- Korail in Banani and Shahidnagar in Lalbagh -- of the capital amid the coronavirus outbreak.
31 March 2020, 14:26 PM

Rajshahi City Corporation to provide food support to 1 lakh people

Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to extend its food support to around one lakh people of the city who have become unemployed during the 10-day shutdown to avoid spread of coronavirus.
31 March 2020, 14:22 PM

Inmates at Chattogram Central Jail make 4,000 masks

Ten prisoners at Chattogram Central Jail have made 4,000 facemasks in the last eight days in an attempt to better protect themselves from the coronavirus.
31 March 2020, 13:30 PM

Cox's Bazar beaches see the return of morning glory

It took nature a mere few weeks to reclaim what has always been hers. And she returned after a long time in vast stretches of the Cox’s Bazar sea beach.
31 March 2020, 12:03 PM

SSC examinee dies with flu-like symptoms in Pirojpur

An SSC examinee who had been suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last four days dies in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur.
31 March 2020, 11:49 AM

Let’s form nat’l committee, work together to fight coronavirus: Fakhrul to govt

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir underscores the need for forming a national committee to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus across the country.
31 March 2020, 11:31 AM

Eight more Bangladeshis in US die of coronavirus

A total of eight Bangladeshis die of Covid-19 in the US over the last 24 hours.
31 March 2020, 10:05 AM

Two more infected, 6 including 70-year-old recover: IEDCR

Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 51, says IEDCR.
31 March 2020, 09:24 AM

Fears over coronavirus: 34,000 tea workers go on indefinite strike in Sylhet, Habiganj

A total of 34,000 permanent and temporary workers of 46 tea gardens in Sylhet and Habiganj have gone on strike, demanding suspension of work in order to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.
31 March 2020, 07:07 AM

Bangladeshi journalist dies of coronavirus in New York

Bangladeshi photojournalist A Hai Swapan dies from coronavirus in New York.
31 March 2020, 05:51 AM

Coronavirus pandemic to hit growth in Asia: World Bank

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to sharply slow growth in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as well as China, the World Bank says in an economic update.
31 March 2020, 03:12 AM

NBR asks customs offices to release essentials, raw materials

The National Board of Revenue directs its customs offices to release industrial raw materials alongisde imported essential commodities, emergency medical equipment related products and services.
30 March 2020, 19:26 PM

Covid-19: Why Bangladesh could be amongst the worst affected during this pandemic

Following the declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, the global community has faced the insurmountable task of addressing the rising burden of disease.
30 March 2020, 18:00 PM