Reaffirming her government’s stance to be there with people until the coronavirus crisis is over, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said economic activities have to be resumed for the sake of the lives and livelihoods of people.

While the country sees the numbers of Covid-19 patients and deaths surge sharply, the government yesterday announced the end of the temporary shutdown.

The rate of Covid-19 infection has increased during the Eid holiday as about one out of every five people tested in the last four days showed positive for the virus.

The isolation unit for coronavirus patients at United Hospital was makeshift, it lacked fire safety measures and was built in violation of the Bangladesh National Building Code, fire service officials said yesterday.

Mahmuda Akhter and her two children were heading towards Moharajpur area in Koyra upazila yesterday to look for a dry place to live.

A Sikder Group air ambulance left Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport for Bangkok on May 25 with two passengers amid the coronavirus restrictions.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and enquired about the damages caused by Cyclone Amphan.

At least 40 dead bodies have been recovered after a Pakistani plane crashed with nearly 100 people on board in the southern city of Karachi yesterday, according to rescue officials, with dozens more feared dead.

While the number of Covid-19 positive cases as well as deaths keep rising every day, with Dhaka worst affected, many are still indifferent to maintaining social distancing and health safety guidelines.

Anticipating an increased demand for food grain, a section of rice millers and wholesalers are exhibiting stockpiling tendencies, pushing up the price of the recently harvested Boro paddy.

Thousands of people continued to leave Dhaka yesterday as the government apparently relaxed travel restrictions ahead of the Eid.

Yusuf Hawlader does not know where he will live now as his homestead has been washed away by onrushing water triggered by Cyclone Amphan.

Thirteen people, including two children, were crushed to death when a truck overturned and plunged into a ditch in Gaibandha’s Palashbari yesterday morning.

Yesterday, we published a caption story of the 24-year-old Jhuma sitting on the footpath in the vicinity of Shahid Minar in a state of near collapse, supported by her husband, Shujan, standing next to her.

The numbers of Covid-19 cases and deaths have more than doubled in less than two weeks.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to take prompt measures to provide money and relief materials to Amphan-affected people, and reconstruct their houses.

The roaring, howling sound was what stayed with us all night.

At least 2 lakh tonnes of mangoes, which is around 16 percent of the country’s total annual production, have fallen off the trees because of cyclone Amphan, said the Department of Agricultural Extension.

Cyclone Amphan has left behind a trail of destruction in the country’s coastal areas, affecting more than a million people in nine districts in Khulna and Barishal divisions.

Cyclone Amphan has caused 40,800 farmers of shrimp, finfish and crab losses worth Tk 217 crore in the south and southwest coastal divisions, according to preliminary estimate by the Department of Fisheries.