The government has set fees, Tk 200 and Tk 500, for Covid-19 testing at the public health facilities.

The government has started using tuberculosis diagnosis machine -- GeneXpert -- to detect Covid-19, in a desperate attempt to ease the strain on its testing facilities with limited number of RT-PCR machines.

Roads and Highway Department (RHD) restricted vehicular movement on one of the four lanes of First Bangladesh-China Friendship Bridge in the capital’s Postogola since yesterday evening as a crack developed on it after being hit by a rescue ship.

The government’s zero tolerance policy against corruption will continue and none will be spared, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said in parliament.

A novice was allegedly at the helm moving the Moyur-2 astern when the vessel slammed into a smaller launch, causing it to sink and drown at least 32 people in the Buriganga at the capital's Shyambazar yesterday.

Migrant labour sending countries should strongly oppose forced deportation of workers during the pandemic and there should be a transitional justice mechanism for those facing job loss and wage theft, experts said.

Though the scientific community is mulling over whether the Covid-19 reinfection cases are possible, Bangladeshi scientist Dr Bijon Kumar Shil rules out the chances.

The government has put the last nail on the coffin of the country’s state-run jute industry by closing all the 22 jute mills and laying off 24,886 workers.

Mohammad Noman, a former Jatiya Party MP of Laxmipur-2 who was also an adviser to the party’s Chairman GM Quader, has been expelled from the party, read a press release yesterday.

Global infections from the novel coronavirus have surpassed 10 million as the rate of new cases surges.

As the official coronavirus death toll in the country surged past 1,700 yesterday, experts said the actual figure of death would be much higher had those died with Covid-19 symptoms been taken into account.

A unified appeal, signed by 105 world leaders, including 18 Nobel laureates, 32 former heads of state and government, political leaders, artistes, international NGOs and institutions, has urged governments, foundations, philanthropists and social businesses to come forward and produce and distribute Covid-19 vaccines all over the world for free.

The government will authorise the use of rapid testing kits for measuring antibodies in patients infected with the coronavirus.

The 10 districts of Khulna division have only two ICUs for coronavirus patients -- that too are plagued with faulty equipment and inadequate medical supplies.

South Point School and College in Dhaka held its admission tests yesterday, disregarding the government directives on keeping all educational institutions shut to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Marking areas into red, yellow or green zones is a continuous process.

When many guardians, either having lost their jobs or wages cut amid the coronavirus pandemic, are struggling to pay their children’s tuition fees, schools plead with them to make the payment on an urgent basis.

Hoping to build confidence among the engineers and workers, the metro rail project authorities are setting up two field hospitals for their employees infected with the coronavirus.

Japan International Cooperation Agency (Jica) is looking for a path to overcome the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic in implementation of its funded projects in Bangladesh.

In the first 17 days of this month, the country’s two private airlines operated 552 domestic flights with 16,334 passengers, and the state-owned Biman operated just two carrying 24.