The Local Government and Rural Development (LGRD) ministry allocates an additional Tk 52.25 crore for the different local government bodies to tackle the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.

The government today instructed local authorities to relocate all kitchen and fish markets to khas land or other suitable areas during the coronavirus crisis to ensure social distancing in those markets.

Another 168 British citizens stranded in Bangladesh due to flight suspension amid Covid-19 pandemic leave Dhaka for London by a special flight of British Airways.

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) calls upon Bangladesh’s development partners to ensure “unprecedented levels of support” to the country in its efforts to fight the Covid-19 crisis.

India hands over its second tranche of emergency medical supplies containing 1,00,000 Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) tablets and 50,000 sterile surgical latex gloves to Bangladesh to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic.

Readymade garment (RMG) workers in Narayanganj, Gazipur and Savar take to the streets, protesting layoff and demanding wages for the month of March.

Forty-five districts out of 64 are now under total lockdown as a part of the government’s measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Chief Justice Syed Mahmud Hossain has extended the closure of all courts across the country till May 5 to contain the spread of coronavirus.

Two children and a teenage boy die of Covid-19 like symptoms in Kurigram and Jhenidah.

Five people -- including one child -- died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says in a briefing.

India’s battle against Covid-19 pandemic has become “a people-driven movement” as they are rising to the occasion to help each other, Prime Minister Narendra Modi says.

An 80-year-old man, who tested positive for coronavirus, dies at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH).

The United States recorded 2,494 more coronavirus deaths in the past 24 hours, according to figures reported Saturday night by Johns Hopkins University.

The Iskcon Temple in Dhaka’s Swamibagh has been placed under lockdown in adherence with directives from the IEDCR, police say.

The historic iftar market in capital’s Chawkbazar area remained almost empty on the first day of Ramadan amid shutdown for coronavirus.

On April 14, a doctor at the surgery department of Sir Salimullah Medical College Hospital sent The Daily Star a list of protective gear they were supplied that day.

Bangladesh appears to be the only country in the world where the Covid-19 death rate is higher than the recovery rate.

The Department of Inspection for Factories and Establishments (DIFE) has launched an investigation to find out whether the garment factories that are going for temporary closures following mass order cancellations are doing so by the book.

Ignoring the risks of contracting and spreading the coronavirus, hundreds of garment factory workers left their villages yesterday on foot or jammed into whatever vehicle they could get to join work in Dhaka and its outskirts.

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