A statement by Save the Children Australia said most of Bangladesh’s intensive care beds and ventilators are in major urban centres, making it difficult for remote communities to access those.

Starting today Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) has started testing for coronavirus using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine.

A 55-year-old woman dies with coronavirus-like symptoms in Rupsha upazila of Khulna.

People of at least 33 villages in Lalmonirhat and Moulvibazar have opted for self-lockdown to contain the spread of the coronavirus.

The government has launched a national hotline, 333, for providing humanitarian assistance and food to the needy during the nationwide shutdown amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College begins testing samples for coronavirus (Covid-19).

Three more members of Tabligh Jamaat in Singair upazila of Manikganj have tested positive with coronavirus, two days after local administration locked down Singair municipality as a Tabligh Jamaat man was identified as Covid-19 positive.

Five more died of coronavirus infection in the last 24 hours, IEDCR says.

India announces that it will supply two key medicines — paracetamol and hydroxychloroquine — to its neighbouring countries and some other nations badly hit by the pandemic, to bolster the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

Authorities shut down the emergency unit of the Narayanganj 100-bed General Hospital ((Victoria) at Mondolpara for today as two nurses and a ward boy who worked there tested positive for coronavirus.

Facebook Inc says it would start surveying some US users about their health as part of a Carnegie Mellon University research project aimed at generating “heat maps” of self-reported coronavirus infections.

As COVID-19 captures global headlines, the World Health Organization (WHO) warns that the world needs nearly six million nurses.

European nations including hard-hit Italy and Spain start looking ahead to easing coronavirus lockdowns after steady falls in fatality rates, as the United States prepares for what one official called "peak death week".

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's condition has worsened since being hospitalised with persistent COVID-19 symptoms and he has been moved into intensive care, his Downing Street office says in a statement.

At least 12 people, mostly elderly, have died since Sunday after showing Covid-19-like symptoms, while many houses have been locked down and families home-quarantined in different districts to slow down the spread of coronavirus across the country.

Self-isolation and social distancing are effective in slowing the spread of Covid-19. While staying home without any knowledge on exactly when the situation will improve, one can nurture a hobby and students can engage in extra-curricular activities with the aid of online materials.

When Sumaiya Akter got a divorce around four years ago, she had nowhere to go with her baby boy. Her own parents had died when she was a child.

Newspapers and other essential services will remain out of the purview of the ongoing shutdown, which was announced by the government to contain the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

While the authorities maintain that community transmission is happening only in clusters and that there is nothing to worry, experts say unless the government draws up a cluster containment strategy immediately, the situation will remain worrisome.

The authorities yesterday reported the highest number of deaths from the coronavirus and confirmed infections in 15 districts.