It is disturbing to learn that the police hospital in Dhaka has been overwhelmed by patients due to the number of COVID-19 infected police personnel.

Suhana & Anis Ahmed Foundation (SAAF) has provided Tk 1.05 crore as a special Covid-19 financial support to Bidyanondo Foundation, enabling immediate support to 22,000 families in remote areas of Bangladesh, a press release said.

The novel coronavirus appears to be getting a tight grip on the country as the number of infected people reported hit a new high in a single day.

Readymade garment factories that have resumed production will be shut down in case a significant number of workers get infected with Covid-19, Health Minister Zahid Maleque has said.

Around 50 current and civilian members of Rapid Action Battalion-11 test positive for coronavirus in Narayanganj, one of the hotspots for the virus in the country.

The number of patients that have recovered from Covid-19 jumps from 177 to 1,063 in just one day. Why is the sudden jump in number of recovered patients?

The central bank today directed banks to transfer all interest accrued or to be accrued between April 1 and May 31 this year from all of their loans to an interest-free blocked account.

Nine members of fire service and civil defence, including a deputy assistant director, have so far tested Covid-19 positive.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque says that the readymade garment factories will be operated by strictly maintaining health rules for the sake of people’s lives and livelihoods.

Armed people recently tried to storm Michigan state governor’s office to force him to withdraw lockdown. In the US, there is debate about whether to follow science and continue the lockdown or withdraw it and resume economic activities.

221 Bangladeshi nationals return home from India on two special flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines after being stranded in the neighbouring country for more than one and half months due to flight suspension amid the Covid-19 outbreak.

At least 211 people are killed in road accidents across the country in one month of the ongoing shutdown enforced to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Two people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

One hundred and thirteen police personnel tested positive for Covid-19 across the country since yesterday noon, according to a tally of Bangladesh Police Headquarters.

Press freedom in Bangladesh has been in decline long before the coronavirus came to our shores.

As COVID-19 spreads, repression and disinformation have generally followed in its wake.

It is a matter of grave concern that we still do not have enough designated hospitals or institutions to conduct Covid-19 tests. While initially only the

An overwhelming number of people, both in the formal and informal sectors, have lost their jobs in Bangladesh due to the pandemic, but unfortunately the government lacks any data on the actual number of people who may have been impacted.

We know that intensive care unit (ICU) is for critically ill patients. We also know that we have a scarcity of ICU beds as well as specialists in critical care management in Bangladesh.

Almost all nutrients in the diet play a crucial role in maintaining an optimal immune response, and both insufficient and excessive intakes can have negative consequences on the immune status and susceptibility to a variety of pathogens. Among the most important ones are zinc and selenium.