The Anti-Corruption Commission has filed total 15 cases against 20 people, including 14 representatives of the local government, for their alleged involvement in the misappropriation of about 54,000kg subsidised rice allocated for the poor and vulnerable people.

The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (Caab) has issued guidelines for air operators, airports and passengers as part of its efforts to resume flight operations on domestic and international routes on a limited scale after May 16.

Government officials and teachers are distributing fortified biscuits to the houses of over 30 lakh primary school students so that they are not deprived of nutrition while schools are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak.

Tragedy struck a family early yesterday in Narayanganj when a man’s death from fever, cough and respiratory problems -- allegedly after hospitals in Dhaka denied him admission -- was followed swiftly by his grieving father’s demise from cardiac arrest.

The government has extended Food-Friendly Programme for one more month, while the OMS programme for around 13 lakh listed people in urban and semi-urban areas will continue to help the low-income people hit hard by the shutdown.

With more and more garment factories reopening every day, the deadly coronavirus appears to be spreading among workers in the industrial belts in Ashulia, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Chattogram.

Four retired and two serving members of the army died of Covid-19 as of yesterday, said a press release of the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate.

Despite protective measures taken by authorities, the number of infection in the police force has been on a rapid rise with around one hundred officials across the country testing positive for Covid-19 daily over the last one week.

The country reported a record single-day surge of detected coronavirus cases -- 1,034 -- as the tally crossed the 15,000 mark, while 11 new deaths took the death toll to 239.

Health workers and police personnel who come in close contact with unidentified dead bodies for conducting autopsies and enquiries are at a high risk of Covid-19 infection.

When there was no effective drug to treat Covid-19 patients in the country, anti-viral generic drug Remdesivir, brought by Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Ltd, offers a ray of hope, Dr ABM Abdullah, personal physician of the prime minister, said at a discussion yesterday.

Around 14,500 tonnes of hazardous plastic waste have been produced from the single use surgical face masks, gloves, hand sanitisers bottles, and polythene bags in the first month of the shutdown, says a study report.

On the first day of the reopening of some markets in the capital yesterday amid the Covid-19 outbreak, many shoppers and store staffers were found to have flouted the directives of Dhaka Metropolitan Police, laying people’s health safety on the line.

The Covid-19 outbreak in the country turned grimmer yesterday as health authorities reported a new record of coronavirus infection and a spike in fatalities.

Mentioning that people are suffering a lot due to the shutdown, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government was trying to reopen some sectors gradually so that the poor could earn their livelihoods.

Time is of the utmost essence in emergency care. But in this pandemic, as hospitals take on the challenge of a rising number of patients, emergency care is denied to many, resulting in fatal consequences.

The Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) will begin the performance trial of home-grown Covid-19 testing kit developed by Gonoshasthaya Kendra today.

The prisons authorities are releasing another 2,329 convicted prisoners from jails in third phase to ease the accommodation crisis and minimise the risk of novel coronavirus transmission in overcrowded prisons.

Pregnancy is a stressful and overwhelming experience in itself. Add to that a global pandemic and the whole ordeal can become even more difficult and frightening.

Eight people died and 636 tested positive for Covid-19 across the country in the 24 hours until 2:30pm yesterday, said the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).