Leena Leticia Biswas, 49, an intellectually-disabled woman, has been missing from her residence at Monipuripara of Farmgate area since early morning on Monday.

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.

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.

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.

Over 50 people have been injured in a clash between two groups of people over constructing a drain in Brahmanbaria’s Sarail upazila, amid the countrywide shutdown to contain the Covid-19 spread.

The construction of the last pier of the much-anticipated Padma Bridge is expected to be completed within today, giving a big boost to the long-delayed project.

The government is going to launch special open market sale (OMS) of coarse rice at the rate of Tk 10 per kg at all city corporation areas of the country in bid to ensure food for relatively poor people during the nationwide shutdown to curb coronavirus transmission.

Police recover the bodies of three members of a family from a house in Chakrabarty area of Gazipur city.

Law Minister Anisul Huq yesterday said the home quarantine of 30 lower court judges, who returned from Australia on March 15 after a two-week training, ended yesterday, and they are now doing well.

The Police Headquarters (PHQ) yesterday called upon all not to spread misleading information and rumours against law enforcers, as it is demotivating officials who are working for the welfare of the country amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Following investment in STS Holdings Ltd by Evercare and CDC Group, Apollo Hospital Dhaka has been rebranded as Evercare Hospital Dhaka.

Bangladesh is weighing options to evacuate several hundred Bangladeshi citizens who have been stranded in India amid a 21-day lockdown that the country has been enforcing since March 24 in a bid to stop the transmission of novel coronavirus.

A number of doctors in Chattogram are offering treatment to patients remotely, as they are not attending private practice amidst countrywide shutdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

These days, port city’s Ice Factory Road remains mostly quiet due to the countrywide shutdown announced by the government to slow the spread of coronavirus.

On March 26, 19-year-old Iqbal Hossain (not his real name), a volunteer of a blood donation organisation, was out to donate blood to an anemia patient at Ibn Sina Hospital of Sylhet.

UK High Commission in Dhaka has advised British nationals, who are staying in Bangladesh now, to be prepared to stay in the country until commercial flights resume.

The ongoing coronavirus outbreak has caused a delay in filing appeals with the Supreme Court challenging its High Court verdict in the sensational BDR carnage case.

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and Khulna Medical College Hospital yesterday received polymerase chain reaction machines that will be used to test for Covid-19.

After a tiring session of painting a nearby store, labourer Shaheen Mia finds the newly set up public hand-washing station, and he along with his co-worker grabs the bar of soap and scrubs away all dirt and grime, and possibly the coronavirus.

Rapid Action Battalion claimed to have arrested a member of the banned militant group Ansarullah Bangla Team in a drive that was carried out at Rajuk Uttara Housing Project today.