The admission test for medical colleges was held across the country yesterday amid widespread violation of health safety rules outside many exam centres, risking further spread of Covid-19 in the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon people to help the government contain the second wave of novel coronavirus by maintaining health guidelines such as wearing masks, avoiding mass gatherings and refraining from going out of home unnecessarily.

With the number of infections and deaths from Covid-19 getting bigger, inadequate high-flow oxygen support at public hospitals has become a serious cause for concern.

Intentionally, Nasir Uddin has been returning home almost every night after his two daughters go to sleep because he can’t afford the things the girls ask for.

The music academy of legendary musician Ustad Alauddin Khan is situated just 150 metres off Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station.

A total of 65,079 people were found infected with Covid-19 last month, but over 48,000 of them tested positive in just the last 14 days.

The government has put a 16-day travel restriction on people coming from European countries, except the UK.

Dhaka University teachers Eshani Chakraborty and Zobaida Nasreen, on March 25, sent a rejoinder to our report “Plagiarism found in the work of two DU teachers”, published a day before.

The US Department of State came down heavily on the lack of freedom of expression in Bangladesh in its 45th annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

Dhaka city dwellers, especially office-goers, suffered immensely for want of public transport yesterday, first day when bus owners went to implement government directives of carrying 50 percent passengers of their capacity.

Eight cases have been filed in Chattogram and Munshiganj in five days since the anti-Modi protest and strike were organised by radical Islamic organisation Hefazat-e-Islam.

Police chief Benazir Ahmed yesterday said names of those who incited the Hefajat attacks will come up in the investigation into the incidents.

An intense and sustained vaccination campaign can play a pivotal role in Bangladesh’s future economic benefits up to more than 10 percent of its current GDP, according to a new report of the World Bank.

The record of daily cases of Covid-19 got shattered yesterday and deaths from the deadly virus have been climbing every day. Hospitalisation is soaring as well. But the situation on the streets hardly gives any indication of how dangerous things have become.

As the country reported a record number of daily Covid-19 cases yesterday, the expert committee of the government recommended “partial or modified” lockdown of “high-risk” areas.

Experts say the 18-point directive that the government issued on Monday to curb the rapid surge in Covid cases is not only a delayed response but it also lacks clarity.

With the country witnessing a sharp rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths, authorities concerned have imposed restrictions on carrying passengers in buses, trains and launches.

With only two oxygen cylinders, the emergency unit of Mugda Medical College Hospital in the capital is struggling to cope with the influx of coronavirus patients.

All passengers arriving from the UK and other European countries will have to be in institutional quarantine for 14 days at government facilities or government-approved hotels at their own costs.

The government has taken steps to increase the number of beds in public hospitals and open temporary healthcare facilities in Dhaka to accommodate the rising number of Covid-19 patients.