A Bangladesh Navy ship yesterday left for The Maldives, carrying more than 100 tonnes of food, medicines and equipment as assistance to help fight the coronavirus.

Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation has demanded special allocation for waterways workers who have been “risking their lives to ensure transportation and supply of essential goods”.

A shortage of testing kit components is threatening to impede Covid-19 testing in Chattogram from today.

A total of 144 Bangladeshis -- including 13 cabin crew -- who remained stranded in Saudi Arabia (KSA) for over a month following suspension of air communication between Dhaka and Riyadh due to global outbreak of Covid-19, returned to Dhaka last night.

The United Arab Emirates has warned migrant-sending countries, including Bangladesh, of imposing strict future restrictions on recruitment of workers if they refuse to repatriate their nationals from the Emirates amid the coronavirus pandemic.

They spent their childhood working as labourers in the capital’s Karwan Bazar kitchen market. Their task was to unload vegetables from trucks that arrived in droves at the market.

While the lone laboratory in Rajshahi division is struggling to cope with the increasing number of samples, a real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine for detecting Covid-19 has been gathering dust at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) for around four years.

Mugda General Hospital in Dhaka launches 3T (test, trace and treatment) services in a bid to curb the Covid-19 outbreak.

Additional Inspector General of Police Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun has taken charge as Director General (DG) of Rab.

A senior doctor at Narayanganj 300-bed Hospital tested positive for coronavirus and has since been in isolation.

Hundreds of workers of different garment factories in Dhaka, Chattogram and Narayanganj staged demonstrations demanding their salaries for March.

A Bangladesh Navy ship is starting for the Maldives, carrying more than 100 metric tons of food, medicine and medical equipment as assistance amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The United Arab Emirates has warned migrant-sending countries, including Bangladesh, of imposing strict future restrictions on recruitment if they refuse to take back their citizens amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Newly appointed Inspector General of Police Benazir Ahmed is adorned with the IGP rank badge.

Dr Md Moyeen Uddin, an assistant professor of Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital who tested Covid-19 positive, died at Kurmitola General Hospital in Dhaka early today.

Kotha, a local social and lifestyle mobile application, today launched a virtual hospital -- HelloDoc -- where patients can consult doctors through video conferencing and have certain medical tests done at home.

The local administration in Mymensingh has locked down the district until further notice in a bid to contain spread of the coronavirus.

Three specialist physicians of Sheikh Fazilatunnessa Mujib Memorial KPJ Specialised Hospital in Gazipur have tested positive for Covid-19.

An alleged robber is killed in a “gunfight” with detectives in Bosila area of Dhaka.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday served a legal notice to the government requesting it to conduct mobile court to give exemplary punishment to those involved in irregularities in relief distribution and misappropriation of relief materials during the ongoing crisis due to coronavirus.