Following requests from various countries, Bangladesh has decided to bring back migrant workers but after holding a few multi and bilateral dialogues, Expatriate’s Welfare Minister Imran Ahmed says.

Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Ministry suspends seven Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and three members for irregularities in distribution of relief among poor, during the ongoing shutdown.

A recent survey finds that 49 percent of low-wager earners in the coastal districts have no clear idea on the primary protective measures, including basic rules of hand washing, required for preventing Covid-19.

When a 38-year-old school from Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila started showing symptoms of coronavirus back in April 5, she immediately locked herself up in her room, fearing she was indeed infected.

A total of 218 members of police were tested positive for Covid-19 across the country while discharging their duties, according to a tally of Police Headquarters.

India has succeeded in minimising coronavirus transmission in 30 days of the lockdown so far, the country’s health ministry says.

Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal requests Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) to provide continuous support to minimise the effects of the financial crisis caused by the coronavirus outbreak and the resultant nationwide shutdown.

Chancellor Angela Merkel says she is worried that some German states are being “very brisk” in relaxing their social distancing efforts, stressing that the coronavirus pandemic is “still at the beginning”, and calls for a bigger European Union budget to support economic recovery in the bloc.

The United Kingdom’s economy is crumbling under the strain of the coronavirus lockdown and government borrowing is soaring to the highest levels in peacetime history, increasing pressure on the government to set out an exit strategy.

VIP or not, everyone will be treated at the same hospitals and will be given same facilities in case of coronavirus infection, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

As the Covid-19 pandemic cripples the world and its economy with thousands of cases every day, the biggest victims are the poor, who cannot afford to stay home. Keeping them in mind, independent filmmakers from Bangladesh and beyond have created ‘Film for Humanity’.

Seven people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Health Minister Zahid Maleque say

Two asylum-seekers on the Greek island of Lesbos were shot and injured after apparently violating coronavirus quarantine rules, officials says.

Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Birdem General Hospital has been closed after four patients undergoing treatment there tested positive for coronavirus.

President Donald Trump announces he has partially suspended immigration to the United States, with the aim of keeping foreigners out of local jobs during the coronavirus crisis.

The World Health Organization warns that the coronavirus crisis will not end any time soon, with many countries only in the early stages of the fight, as the global death toll surpassed 180,000.

Four people, including a physician, test positive for coronavirus according to tests conducted at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID).

A doctor and seven medical staff of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) test positive for Covid-19.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) has been making a guideline for reopening the garment factories, most of which have been asked to shut down by the sector’s apex trade body on April 11.

The world is facing widespread famine “of biblical proportions” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the UN’s food relief agency has warned, with a short time to act before hundreds of millions starve.