Some 1.6 billion workers in the informal economy, representing nearly half of the global labour force, are in immediate danger of losing their livelihoods due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Labour Organization (ILO) says.

Local administration in Khagrachhari reports the first case of Covid-19 in the district.

UNDP, with support from Australia, provides 5,000 Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for urban waste cleaning workers of Dhaka North and South City, Chattogram and Narayangaj city corporations.

A senior journalist of a daily newspaper in Dhaka who died at a hospital in Uttara is found Covid-19 positive.

UN human rights expert Yanghee Lee has called upon the United Nations to step up its efforts to protect civilians in Rakhine and Chin states of Myanmar, alleging ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed by the Myanmar military there.

As the world tackles Covid-19 pandemic, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina calls for a new kind of approach that fosters cooperation, and not isolation, among all stakeholders in an article published by the World Economic Forum.

Around 2,000 Supreme Court lawyers have applied for loans from the Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) as the association decided to provide interest free loans to its members in need to tackle the financial pressure during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.

PepsiCo in Bangladesh, along with the global food and beverage company’s philanthropic arm, the PepsiCo Foundation, has partnered with Brac, the world’s leading NGO, to provide over 1.4 million meals to low-income and ultra-poor families impacted by coronavirus pandemic across Bangladesh.

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

A police constable, who was in quarantine, died last night, and his sample tested Covid-19 positive today.

A total of 51 Bangladeshi citizens, who were stranded in Japan due to the ban on passenger flights in the aftermath of the coronavirus outbreak, return to Dhaka on a special Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight.

A worker of a readymade garment factory, who was on quarantine in Pirojpur and had his samples taken for coronavirus test, is found positive for the virus after he returns to Dhaka.

Britain is on track to record one of the worst coronavirus death tolls in Europe, after data showed nationwide fatalities topped 24,000 nine days ago.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has made it clear that they are not going to submit their rapid test kits to the drug administration through any contract research organisation (CRO).

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday appealed for more flight capacity to step up shipments of diagnostic tests and protective equipment to areas where Covid-19 is spreading, especially Latin America.

The government is working to develop a database of nearly 1.25 crore beneficiary families to ensure proper distribution of food aid and plug the loopholes in the current distribution system, said officials at two ministries.

Several hundreds of people yesterday blocked two highways in Jashore and Savar demanding food aid.

More than a thousand garment factories reopened yesterday amid coronavirus fears with many workers finding it difficult to reach workplaces for a lack of transport.

The intensive care units for coronavirus patients have yet to become functional in many of the 17 hospitals dedicated to Covic-19 treatment, even a month and a half after the authorities reported the first case in the country.

Remember that cruel, old joke about the bear and the two men—the one where upon being attacked, one of them, panicky, starts hurrying with the intention of outrunning the grizzly carnivore, while the other, appearing more relaxed, says to the other, “I don’t have to outrun the bear, just you”?