Three houses in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila are placed under lockdown after a local man was hospitalised with coronavirus-like symptoms.

Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) expresses grave concern over patients being denied treatment in many hospitals of the country due to coronavirus fears.

Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader says a vested quarter is spreading rumours on social media to mislead people over the coronavirus issue and party men must be alert to curb those.

Around 0.2 per cent to 0.4 per cent of Bangladesh’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth rate may be lost due to Covid-19 outbreak, forecasts Asian Development Bank.

A 35-year-old man who died at Shariatpur Sadar Hospital on March 31, tested negative for coronavirus from the samples collected by IEDCR.

Five more people have tested positive for coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, taking the number of confirmed cases to 61, Health Minister Zahid Maleque says.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urges the people to visit physicians if they experience any symptom of coronavirus and not to pay heed to any rumour about the virus as she issues a 31-point directive in view of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Authorities place about 100 families in self-isolation on both sides of a road in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj after a local woman who died earlier tested positive for coronavirus.

The lead photograph published in The Daily Star on Thursday reveals a grim situation faced by many who are dependent on the public transport system for essential services such as medical treatment.

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The storage space in Chattogram Port is quickly running out as reefer containers used to transport perishable goods have piled up because of limited delivery in the past few days amid the current countrywide lockdown enforced to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

A group of citizens in Chattogram have come forward to he aid of stray animals, who have been scrounging for food in the deserted streets of the city.

Taslima Khatun’s livelihood was dependent on selling flowers on streets, but for the last one week, the roads were empty and there was no one to buy flowers from her.

The number of confirmed cases is higher among people with no travel history than those who have come back from abroad, according to the country’s coronavirus tally,

The number of new confirmed coronavirus cases crossed the grim milestone of one million and the death toll topped 50,000 yesterday.

Stuck at home for the past two weeks, Arhaan Habib, a kindergarten student, looks dejected. As he cannot go out amid the nationwide shutdown, he spends most of his time playing with toys and watching YouTube videos on mobile phone. He finds it extremely hard to concentrate on his studies.

At least a dozen people with different illnesses died in Dhaka and other places after they were refused treatment by doctors since March 8 when the first case of coronavirus was reported in the country.

Over a week into the stay-home order across the country, hungry and half-fed faces have started to grow in a huge number.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlett Letter, we read about how adulterers had to wear the sign “A” across their chest. We even have examples in local literature and popular culture like the one of Hurmati , from Shahidullah Kaiser Sangshaptak, or that of Rakhee Gulzar’s character in the 1998 hit Indian film Soldier.

Since December 8, 2019, when a first known case of pneumonia with unknown aetiology was found in Wuhan City, China, the world has been badly tangled up in the novel coronavirus or Covid-19.