Bangladesh has announced one of the lowest stimulus packages among South Asian and Asian peers in terms of gross domestic product (GDP) to counteract the impact of the coronavirus pandemic that is on course to bringing about an economic recession.

A group of prisoners in Chattogram Central Jail have made 4000 face masks in last eight days, to be used as a precautionary measure against a possible coronavirus outbreak inside the jail.

Police have arrested a leader of Jubo League from Pabna for allegedly spreading rumours about coronavirus on social media.

Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) will provide free transportation for doctors and medical staff in the port city so they can go to their workplaces without any hassle during the ongoing shutdown.

The government today received the patent, design and source code of making ventilators from Medtronic, an international medical device company, and can now locally manufacture local manufacturing it to better face the coronavirus outbreak.

Chhayanaut today cancelled their Pahela Baishakh celebrations scheduled to welcome Bangla New Year 1427 at Ramna Batamul due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Navana Group, one of the largest private-sector corporations of the country, is preparing a 100-bed isolated field hospital at Faujdarhat in Chattogram for treatment of coronavirus patients.

Brac Urban Development Programme (UDP) today started the essential food package distribution campaign among people in two slums --- Korail in Banani and Shahidnagar in Lalbagh -- of the capital amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to extend its food support to around one lakh people of the city who have become unemployed during the 10-day shutdown to avoid spread of coronavirus.

Ten prisoners at Chattogram Central Jail have made 4,000 facemasks in the last eight days in an attempt to better protect themselves from the coronavirus.

It took nature a mere few weeks to reclaim what has always been hers. And she returned after a long time in vast stretches of the Cox’s Bazar sea beach.

An SSC examinee who had been suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last four days dies in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir underscores the need for forming a national committee to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus across the country.

A total of eight Bangladeshis die of Covid-19 in the US over the last 24 hours.

Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 51, says IEDCR.

A total of 34,000 permanent and temporary workers of 46 tea gardens in Sylhet and Habiganj have gone on strike, demanding suspension of work in order to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

Bangladeshi photojournalist A Hai Swapan dies from coronavirus in New York.

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to sharply slow growth in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as well as China, the World Bank says in an economic update.

The National Board of Revenue directs its customs offices to release industrial raw materials alongisde imported essential commodities, emergency medical equipment related products and services.

As we have said time and again in this column, echoing the directives of WHO and experts within the country and outside—we must speed up the testing process on an urgent basis, now that we are entering the fourth week since Bangladesh reported its first official Covid-19 case.