The streets of Dhaka have been deserted by humans, but one thing has remained constant there even during the shutdown. The city’s resident strays are still roaming the streets, some scampering about by themselves, some sprinting in groups.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says the government is going to launch three more isolation centres in the capital to combat the coronavirus outbreak.

E-commerce delivery persons can move across Dhaka without restriction, Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) says in a circular issued in this regard.

The fire that broke out at a power sub-station office at Mohanagar Project area in Dhaka this afternoon has been doused.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) orders that all recognised kitchen markets and super shops must close by 5:00pm.

In a sign of solidarity, ambassadors of several Muslim countries on their individual capacities provide six tonnes of food for those facing the brunt of the shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic.

A six-month-old, who was put under isolation at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) with coronavirus symptoms, dies.

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in a statement yesterday said it will bring to book culprits involved in misappropriating government relief meant for the needy.

National Professor Sufia Ahmed, who died of cardiac arrest on Thursday night, was laid to rest at Banani graveyard in the capital yesterday.

Christian Church authorities in Bangladesh are conducting online prayer services during the holy week ahead of Easter Sunday on April 12, after closing doors to the churches across the country to avoid any public gathering amid the coronavirus pandemic.

To prevent the spread of coronavirus, Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have launched a mobile app, aiming to monitor people who are in home quarantine after coming in contact with Covid-19 positive patients.

BSRM, a leading steel manufacturer of the country, handed over 1,000 personal protection equipment (PPE) to eight hospitals in Chattogram recently.

Bangladesh Police have instructed owners and workers of emergency supply products and pharmacies, who have government permission to stay open after sunset, to not allow customers to enter inside shops unless absolutely necessary.

Recently I started re-reading a book I first read three decades ago. African Silences chronicles writer/naturalist Peter Mathiessen’s travels through Africa during the 1970s and 1980s looking for rare birds and wildlife.

Usually, April is a busy month for Nantu Mia.

Two physicians and one lab technician were sent to institutional quarantine in Patuakhali as they treated a coronavirus patient defying WHO guidelines.

A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court fined eight people of a bridal party Tk 80,000 in Savar because they had arranged a wedding programme in defiance of government directives to stay home in order to curb the spread of coronavirus.

The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) provides food to 2,221 people under the city corporation who had called their emergency hotline till today, a press release says.

The burn unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the capital is going to turned into a centre for treating Covid-19 patients amid the growing number of detections in the last couple of days.

Local administration has locked down Cumilla district to contain the spread of the coronavirus situation, after a meeting of the District Disaster Management Committee was held at the deputy commissioner’s office.