Regions of Italy with higher family fragmentation and a high number of residential nursing homes experienced the highest rate of COVID-19 infections in people over age 80, according to a new study published recently in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

Maksudul Alam Khandaker Khorshed, councillor of Ward 13 in Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC), who has been helping arrange the last rites of Covid-19 victims, has tested positive for the virus.

An elderly couple died after showing symptoms associated with coronavirus 13 days after the death of their son to Covid-19 infection in Kachua upazila of Chandpur.

India has extended the nationwide shutdown till June 30 as coronavirus cases have spiked in the country.

Brac University has announced that it would waive all non-tuition fees for summer 2020 and need-based financial aid will be given to students who have been particularly affected by the coronavirus crisis.

State Minister for Civil Aviation and Tourism M Mahbul Ali today said that as all measures had been taken at airports around the country, following those one could travel safely.

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), in collaboration with the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS), assisted over 30,000 people of 6,000 families in urban areas of Chittagong Hill Tracts with a cash grant of BDT 4,500 each family affected by coronavirus pandemic.

Despite having Covid-19 like symptoms, Anisur Rahman has to wait a month to have a test done.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has decided to run functions of both the Appellate and High Court divisions of the Supreme Court through the virtual system from tomorrow till June 15 as en effort to contain the spread of Covid-19.

Shanto-Mariam University of Creative Technology (SMUCT) founding chairman and freedom fighter, Imamul Kabir Shanto, dies of coronavirus at the Combined Military Hospital in the city.

Twenty-eight people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

India today recorded the highest single-day spike in the number of fresh coronavirus deaths and positive cases.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved US$ 732 million (BDT 6,222 crore) emergency assistance for Bangladesh to help the country address the challenges posed by Covid-19.

A troop of monkeys in India attacked a medical official and snatched away blood samples of patients who had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, authorities say.

A senior staff nurse of Sylhet Saheed Shamsuddin Ahmed Hospital died at the hospital, several days after he was diagnosed with Covid-19.

India’s coronavirus death toll passed neighbouring China’s yesterday, with 175 new fatalities in 24 hours taking the total to 4,706, according to official data.

In isolation, all Prof Dr Shakeel Ahmed thinks about is rejoining the fight against Covid-19. At the same time, he has also made sure that the work continues during his absence.

Just two days before the ongoing nationwide shutdown is relaxed, 2,523 people tested Covid-19 positive in the country yesterday, the highest number yet in Bangladesh in a single day.

New job postings nosedived 87 percent year-on-year in April on the leading job search sites in Bangladesh, highlighting the strain the country’s labour market has been going through because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Vladimir Lenin once said, “there are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen”. Can anything be more relevant to explain the present?