Bangladesh Medical Research Council has approved the phase-III clinical trial of a Chinese vaccine for Covid-19 treatment.

Another hospital has been accused of handing forged coronavirus test reports to people.

The meeting was arranged at a government rest house in Sunamganj in January. Three luxury cars were parked outside with a number of security guards on watch. The local upazila nirbahi officer was taking care of food and other amenities.

A middle-aged man from Sylhet’s Companiganj came to the capital’s Uttara at his relative’s house in May last year. He was waiting for a rickshaw in front of Regent Hospital when a car hit him from behind.

Although plasma therapy holds hope for the treatment of critical Covid-19 patients, indiscriminate use of it in the absence of a guideline is posing serious health risks in the country, experts said.

Two additional secretaries of the health ministry and two directors of the health directorate allegedly helped JKG Healthcare CEO Ariful Chaudhury to get the contract for collecting Covid-19 test samples.

The health directorate might soon announce the standard operating procedure of locking down small zones, ignoring the expert suggestions for sealing larger areas.

The executive assistant of tech entrepreneur Fahim Saleh, who was found decapitated in his luxury New York apartment this week, has been charged with his murder, New York police said.

It was a small piece of news published on June 6, hardly noticeable in the slew of coronavirus coverage -- 219 migrant workers deported from Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain have been sent to jail on charges of “tarnishing the image of Bangladesh”.

Nearly two years ago, the government took up an around Tk 5 crore project to conduct a feasibility study for an international cricket stadium proposed to be built near the mighty Padma in Manikganj.

Renowned political scientist and former vice chancellor of Dhaka University Prof Emajuddin Ahmed died at a hospital in the capital early yesterday.

While the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 continues to rise in the county, the health directorate mulls over suspending operations of some hospitals dedicated to treating coronavirus patients due to a “lack of patients”.

As the total number of Covid-19 cases in the country is set to cross 2 lakh milestone today, record shows, it has taken only four weeks to cross the second one lakh mark.

Hundreds of biological science and technology graduates of the country cannot apply their specialised knowledge in practical settings due to the lack of well-equipped laboratories and funding.

A teenage boy allegedly died by suicide hours after police assaulted and picked up his mother and sister in Agrabad area of Chattogram yesterday.

Three villagers were killed and seven others injured after a local Awami League leader and his two brothers allegedly opened fire on them at Moshiali village of Atra-Gilatla Eastern Gate area in Khulna city on Thursday night.

The personal assistant of Fahim Saleh, co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, was arrested yesterday in the murder of the 33-year-old tech entrepreneur in his Manhattan apartment, New York’s news media reported.

The ongoing closure of schools due to the coronavirus pandemic is increasing chances that thousands of marginalised students across the country might have to drop out and engage in child labour, warn government documents and educationists.

There has to be a policy in place to make sure that the problems faced by the youth during the pandemic can be overcome if the Sustainable Development Goals are to be met, said speakers at a virtual dialogue yesterday.

Same day, same RT-PCR test, two different results. One says that the person is positive for Covid-19, while the other says negative.