The country’s first metro rail project, Mass Rapid Transit-6, may miss its completion deadline in December next year if the construction suffers any further delays.

The Covid-19 infection in the country has increased fourfold in the last one month with 3,171 infections recorded yesterday -- by far the highest total for one day.

The capital’s East Rajabazar was put under lockdown yesterday midnight on an experimental basis as part of government efforts to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The coronavirus pandemic inflicted a “swift and massive shock” that has caused the broadest collapse of the global economy since 1870 despite unprecedented government support, the World Bank said Monday.

Dr Zahid Hussain served as a Lead Economist in the Macro, Trade and Investment Global Practice of the World Bank. Since joining the World Bank in 1995, he has worked on several of the organisation’s flagship reports on Bangladesh. Prior to that, he was a member of academia, with 14 years of teaching experience in a number of universities in Bangladesh and abroad.

With Covid-19 bringing economic activities across nations to a halt, more and more people are being pushed into poverty. Job losses, business losses and farming losses, leading to economic stress, are pushing many to the fringes of poverty. And as families are being rendered helpless, the worst sufferers are invariably the children.

Army patrols have been increased in Dhaka’s East Rajabazar as the area prepares to go under lockdown on an experimental basis at midnight.

Infected with Covid-19 and later suffering a stroke, former health minister Mohammed Nasim is still in deep coma.

Covid-19 has taken away the life of another physician at Tejgaon in Dhaka.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury, who tested positive for Covid-19 on May 24, is now feeling better.

A total of 677 Bangladeshi citizens, most of whom are migrant workers, have returned from Kuwait, UAE and Maldives by three separate special flights since Monday.

Around 244 members of Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party, who earlier tested positive for Covid-19, have recovered till today with a recovery rate of around 58 percent, according to an official of the force.

Ranajit Kumar Roy, lawmaker from Jashore-4 constituency, has tested Covid-19 positive.

The total number of police personnel infected with Covid-19 across the country reaches to 6,718, according to a tally by the Police Headquarters.

Forty-five people died with coronavirus infections, 3,171 were infected and 777 recovered in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police Commissioner Md Mahabubor Rahman has tested positive for coronavirus.

A 100-year-old woman in Bangladesh has survived Covid-19 infection despite being a heart disease patient and suffering from old-age complications, family members say.

At a time when nature flourishes amid man’s reduced activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, the chairman of Mahilara union parishad (UP) under Barishal’s Gournadi upazila has taken a novel initiative in memory of those who died due to the highly contagious disease.

Ten countries of South Asia, Middle East and Latin America have seen a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases over the last couple of weeks, according to World Health Organization data.

Faruk Mia came to Dhaka on Saturday, all the way from Narsingdi, to buy an oxygen cylinder for his 65-year-old ailing father as it could not be managed in his district.