The High Court has expressed hope that the authorities concerned will ensure the supply of personal protective equipment (PPEs) for law enforcers and journalists, who are performing their duties amid the coronavirus outbreak.

At least six people were killed and 15 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Sherpur Upazila in Bogura district this morning.

Bangladesh Army yesterday started to spread out troops in major cities to ensure social distancing and implementation of precautionary measures to curb coronavirus transmission.

With the tally of coronavirus patients in the country growing every day and majority of confirmed cases being in Dhaka, the two city corporations appear to be all at sea regarding overseas returnees that are living in the capital.

As Covid-19 has everyone worried across the country, people are compelled to take precautionary measures, such as frequently washing hands and using hand sanitisers to ward off the highly contagious disease.

A mobile court of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection on Monday fined three rice traders for selling rice at higher prices in Manikganj’s Sadar, Harirampur, and Singair upazilas.

Intern doctors of Jalalabad Ragib-Rabeya Medical College Hospital in Sylhet are on strike, demanding personal protective equipment (PPE).

Police yesterday recovered a girl’s body hanging from a tree branch from Atharadana village in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh.

A 61-year-old UK returnee woman, who died at the coronavirus isolation facility at Sylhet Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital on Sunday, was not affected by coronavirus.

Bangladesh has sought assistance of the European Union, USA and G77 countries to help tackle Covid-19 that raised risks of a global economic downturn with losses of production and jobs.

Scholars interviewed by The Daily Star in Rajshahi have urged the government to ensure ample supply of testing kits for detecting coronavirus at union level without making any further delay.

Four people were killed in separate accidents yesterday.

Yesterday at Chattogram Railway Station, one Mohammad Ariful (33) was running to catch the last train of the day. With his three-year-old in tow and wife right behind, the family of three was eager to leave town, but ultimately they didn’t get any space on the train.

Brac and Unilever Bangladesh are collaboratively going to distribute 5 lakh sachets of handwash to vulnerable people across the country within a week to help prevent the transmission of novel coronavirus.

Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF), a non-government and non-profit organisation, will donate one day’s salary of its employees to Gonoshasthaya Kendra, in an effort to help the healthcare centre produce coronavirus-detection kits.

The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of police yesterday claimed to have arrested the leader of the “wolfpack” of militant outfit Ansar Al Islam, that plotted to kill filmmaker Khijir Hayat Khan.

To tackle the novel coronavirus, medical personnel must use personal protective equipment (PPE), but due to the global pandemic, the equipment is scarce in the country.

The government yesterday extended closure of all educational institutions and coaching centres till April 9, as a preventive measure against further spread of novel coronavirus.

Dhaka Power Distribution Company (DPDC) will go to people’s homes to recharge electricity meters if stores with point of sales are closed during the upcoming days.

Smart Jacket (BD) Limited, a Chattogram based manufacturer located at Chattogram Export Processing Zone (CEPZ), is making one lakh sets of surgical jackets for doctors to combat the coronavirus after getting orders from the Health Ministry.