Police yesterday arrested a Rajshahi University teacher under the Digital Security Act for making “defamatory” comments about Awami League’s deceased presidium member Mohammed Nasim.

Has asking questions about, commenting on, or critiquing the health sector, and the agents responsible for it, become tantamount to an activity for which one can be punished and even arrested?

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday formed a probe committee to investigate the alleged anomalies in Covid-19 safety gears’ procurement at Central Medical Stores Depot (CMSD).

As confirmed Covid-19 cases in the country passed the one lakh mark yesterday, the director general of health services said the virus might continue to spread during the next two to three years.

As Covid-19 cases kept going up in mid-April, the government formed a national technical advisory committee to find ways to prevent the spread of the deadly virus in the country.

A record 4,008 cases of the novel coronavirus were reported in the country yesterday.

India and China yesterday agreed to ease tensions at their disputed Himalayan border, even as they traded blame for a brawl that left at least 20 Indian soldiers dead.

The Gonoshasthaya Kendra-developed rapid test kit is not effective in detecting Covid-19, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University has concluded.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at a meeting yesterday discussed the Covid-19 situation in the country and issued directives to contain the pandemic.

India’s official coronavirus death toll leapt by more than 2,000 yesterday as China closed schools in Beijing and restricted air travel from the capital to prevent a second wave of infections.

The photograph, on the front page of yesterday’s The Daily Star, of a five-year-old named Shaon, lying dead on a gurney and his wailing grandfather on the floor of the entrance of Chattogram Medical College Hospital will make the heart of all parents, grandparents and ordinary citizens of the country cry out in pain, anger and frustration.

Three more doctors died of Covid-19 in different districts yesterday, taking the toll to 44, according to Bangladesh Medical Association.

The authorities may extend the academic calendar for primary and secondary students till February next year to overcome academic losses caused by school closure over Covid-19.

At least 20 Indian soldiers have been killed in a violent face-off with Chinese forces on the disputed border, the Indian army has said, in a major escalation of a weeks-long standoff in the western Himalayas.

The submission of the report on Gonoshasthaya Kendra’s rapid test kit for Covid-19 has been postponed for the third time in a row by BSMMU officials, frustrating the scientists who developed the kit well before most other countries.

The shortage of trained manpower at intensive care units (ICUs) compromises proper treatment of Covid-19 patients, among others, at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) in Barishal.

Two city corporations of Dhaka are awaiting maps specifying the areas where lockdown will be imposed from the authorities concerned to stem the transmission of Covid-19.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed all but three High Court observations and directives that concern ensuring treatment for patients at all government and private hospitals across the country irrespective of whether or not they are infected with coronavirus.

With the country moving closer to the 100,000-mark of Covid-19 cases, healthcare experts are yet to know when the outbreak will reach its peak.

With eyes full of hope, a group of Bangladeshis reached Kuwait about two years ago. They made it to the oil-rich Gulf country after spending everything they had.