Some US citizens will be leaving Bangladesh on a chartered flight arranged by the US government, US embassy officials in Dhaka say.

Thousands of low-income people, especially those who are depending on their daily income to survive in Dhaka city, are in a bleak situation due to a 10-day government shutdown to fight the coronavirus epidemic. To ease their sufferings, many people and voluntary organisations are coming forward with help. Tanbir Hasan Shaikat, a member of Dhaka University Central Students Union (DUCSU), is one such individual. Shaikat is feeding around 200 people daily.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has fended questions from the press through a video conference and at one stage was asked whether anyone in his ministry is infected with coronavirus or whether he himself was quarantined.

Police arrest six persons from different areas in Dhaka on charges of spreading rumours and misleading information on the coronavirus outbreak.

Three members of a family sustain burns in a fire in Dhaka's Bhasantek area.

The Chinese embassy yesterday confirmed that none of the 40,500 coronavirus test kits donated to Bangladesh is from Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology -- the company questioned by the Spanish government on Thursday for supplying “faulty” kits.

The number of patients at public hospitals and health complexes in different districts has sharply reduced, with many avoiding the facilities in fear of contracting coronavirus.

Authorities are all set to provide education to secondary students through television from today, aiming to minimise the loss of the academic session due to closure of educational institutions.

The 27th span of much-anticipated Padma Bridge was installed yesterday, making more than four kilometres of the bridge visible.

After the government shut down malls and banned unnecessary gatherings to contain the spread of coronavirus, people have also limited the number of trips to kitchen markets.

A plane departing Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is a rare sight these days, as the country’s busiest airport has turned almost deserted due to air communication suspensions over global Covid-19 outbreak.

About 100,000 migrant workers in the Maldives, including many Bangladeshis, are at added risk from Covid-19, Human Rights Watch has said, urging authorities to ensure their access to healthcare.

At least seven people were killed and 12 injured in road accidents yesterday, report our correspondents.

Gono Kalyan Trust, a nongovernment organisation, has donated Tk five lakh to Gonoshasthaya Kendra to help it continue its research on how to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus, a press release says.

A citizen of Finland collapses by the road at Mirboxtula in Sylhet city.

All 16 police stations under Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) have started services -- taking daily essentials to the doorsteps of port city residents who have been asked to stay home to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The law ministry has opened a monitoring desk in order to take necessary steps to tackle a coronavirus outbreak if it takes place among the lower court judges and employees across the country.

Three people have been killed as a fire broke out at a house in Dhaka’s Mirpur area.

Empty roads, shuttered shops and few people in sight, the effects of the coronavirus can be seen everywhere across the country. And yet, even during these times, work must carry on for many residents of the city.

Defense lawyers for convicted war criminal ATM Azharul Islam are preparing a petition containing at least 10 grounds for seeking review of the Supreme Court verdict, that upheld his death penalty for his involvement in genocide and crimes against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War.