Agriculture Minister Dr Muhammad Abdur Razzaque on Monday said the government has taken various steps to continue food production and ensure uninterrupted supply of vegetables and perishable agricultural products amid the crisis created over the novel coronavirus outbreak.

A migrants’ rights organisation has appealed to the prime minister to announce a social safety net programme for the returnee migrants and their families, who are not being included in any of the social protection schemes declared by the government.

The government of Bahrain this month declared an amnesty programme for undocumented migrant workers to get regularised. This should come as good news for undocumented Bangladeshi workers in the Gulf nation, about 30,000 of whom are expected to avail the programme which runs until December 31 this year.

A month after writing to the health ministry stating their capacity to run coronavirus tests, Dhaka University authorities heard back from the authorities yesterday.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) will provide food packs to one lakh poor families who are out of work during this Ramadan, DSCC mayor Sayeed Khokon told The Daily Star yesterday.

On March 28, Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal readied a 11-member roster -- three doctors, six nurses, and five technologists -- to work at its 150-bed Corona Isolation Unit from the next day. However, four out of the five technologists backed out almost immediately.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) says neighbourhood stores selling essential goods can remain open from 6am till 4pm.

An assistant sub-inspector of police was suspended after some auto-rickshaw drivers staged demonstrations against him for allegedly taking bribe in Dhaka’s Jatrabari area.

An alleged criminal is killed in a “gunfight” with Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Gazipur city.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says all educational institutions will remain closed till September if situation caused by the coronavirus outbreak does not improve.

The 17th teachers’ registration examinations to qualify for appointment to the private educational institutions have been postponed due to the evolving coronavirus crisis.

Former lawmaker Khandakar Asaduz-zaman was laid to rest with state honour at his family graveyard in Naruchi village under Gopalpur upazila in Tangail yesterday morning.

Mymensingh City Corporation Mayor Ekramul Haque Titu yesterday joined farmers in harvesting boro paddy in Char Kalibari area.

British High Commissioner Robert Chatterton Dickson yesterday announced five more charter flights from Dhaka to London for British tourists, short term visitors and their direct dependents to return to the UK.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain yesterday decided to keep the court functions closed till May 5 to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) yesterday called upon Bangladesh’s development partners to ensure “unprecedented level of support” to the country in its efforts to the Covid-19 crisis and recovery.

The public administration ministry has withdrawn its earlier circular to keep 18 ministries and divisions, and their agencies open on a limited scale during the ongoing shutdown.

It was about 2am on April 15 when a helpless mother phoned the owner of a narcotics rehabilitation centre in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

India yesterday donated its second tranche of emergency medical supplies -- 1,00,000 Hydroxychloroquine tablets and 50,000 sterile surgical latex gloves -- to Bangladesh.

An 80-year-old man, who tested positive for coronavirus, dies at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH).