Former Sylhet mayor Badar Uddin Ahmed Kamran died of novel coronavirus at the Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka early yesterday.

Laxmipur lawmaker Mohammad Shahid Islam has caused an uproar in Kuwait by revealing that high-placed officials of that country used to take bribes from him.

Two police personnel, who tested Covid-19 positive earlier, died in city hospitals yesterday.

Absence of proper planning and coordination in the government’s coronavirus response has resulted in a disastrous situation, said a study by the Transparency International Bangladesh.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said she would not accept defeat against an invisible force like the novel coronavirus fearing death.

The High Court yesterday observed that no patient, regardless of whether they are infected with coronavirus, can be deprived of treatment at any government or private hospital.

With over three thousand new infections in a single day, the total number of Covid-19 cases crossed the 90,000-mark yesterday -- the 100th day since the outbreak began in the country.

There was confusion all around. As the news of the government preparing a list of virus hotspots to be categorised as red zones spread, the city residents got puzzled and panicked.

Amid rising coronavirus cases and fatalities, a technical committee of the government has primarily identified 45 areas in the capital as red zones.

Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University is going to submit within a day or two the results of performance trial of the coronavirus antibody testing kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra.

Protesters shut down a major highway in Atlanta on Saturday and burned down a Wendy’s restaurant where a black man was shot dead by police as he tried to escape arrest, an incident likely to fuel more nationwide tensions over race and police tactics.

A 22-year-old nurse of the capital’s Ibn Sina Hospital died in front of its emergency unit allegedly after being refused admission yesterday.

The Indian health ministry has recommended anti-viral drug remdesivir, under emergency use authorisation, to treat Covid-19 patients who are in moderate stage of the illness.

The country is yet to reach the peak of the Covid-19 outbreak due to the government’s “unscientific” and “vague” strategy from the beginning, say experts.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said keeping away people from getting infected with coronavirus and running the wheels of economy simultaneously is a “war”.

More than 70km of roads under the management of Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in four coastal districts have been damaged by cyclone Amphan with 10km still underwater.

The authorities have been exploring labour markets in African countries as overseas jobs may decline in the traditional Middle Eastern and Southeast Asian countries due to coronavirus pandemic.

We apologise to our readers and patrons for an error that occurred in the lead story on Friday, titled ‘A budget not of its time’.

Thousands of readymade garment workers in Gazipur have been passing days in uncertainty as over four dozen factories remain closed for more than two months in the coronavirus fallout.

Physicians at a Dhaka hospital claimed they have observed “cumulative efficacy” of ivermectin in Covid-19 patients while using the drug in combination with doxycycline.