This is a good package committing 2.5 percent of GDP to keep businesses in industry and services afloat with a particular focus on protecting employment and labour income.

France is to begin clinical trials involving transfusions of blood plasma from coronavirus survivors into patients who have severe symptoms in a bid to treat the illness, the institutions involved said Saturday.

Civil society members, including economists and public health professionals, stress on a coordinated way to tackle the ongoing coronavirus outbreak in the country.

India’s national airlines -- Air India -- which is ferrying European and Canadian citizens stuck in India amid nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak, has garnered praise from Pakistan’s Air Traffic Controller (ATC) while flying over the country.

A 45-year-old man who died in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar is found to have been infected with coronavirus.

A 25-year-old man, whose father is the first confirmed coronavirus patient in Chattogram, also tests positive -- making him the second case in the port city.

An allegation has been raised against some healthcare providers at Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) -- the only organisation in Chattogram authorised to test for coronavirus -- over demanding money for conducting the test.

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has directed its field offices to take necessary steps to stop passengers on goods-laden vehicles during the ongoing shutdown.

Six members of a family were infected with Covid-19 in the Sabujbagh area in Dhaka. The family includes an elderly couple, their two daughters and two granddaughters -- one two-and-half years old and the other only six months old, said Mahbub Alam, officer-in-charge of Sabujbagh Police Station.

The International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) in Bangladesh is working together with the Prison Directorate and the Ministry of Home Affairs to enhance the preparedness of the 68 prisons across the country in the face of a possible outbreak of Covid-19, the ICRC said in a statement today.

Criminal Investigation Department (CID) arrested a lawyer on charge of spreading rumours on social media about coronavirus outbreak.

Amid concerns over the spread of coronavirus, around one hundred readymade garment factories are opened in Savar and Ashulia area of Gazipur ignoring the call of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA).

Brac University authority has postponed it decision to assign students grades without holding semester finals.

Narayanganj City Corporation (NCC) urges government.

Law Minister Anisul Huq says the government’s plan to reduce the backlog of cases at the courts will not be possible this year due to the fallout over the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Young Bangla -- a voluntary youth group of Centre for Research and Information (CRI) -- has been raising awareness among young people involved in volunteering in their communities across the country in fighting the coronavirus pandemic.

Bangladesh Police says that it is not allowing anyone to enter or leave Dhaka, except for emergency services.

The authorities of Chittagong University (CU) have decided to donate Tk one crore to prime minister's relief and welfare fund to support the government in the ongoing battle against the deadly coronavirus pandemic.

The Maldives has requested Bangladesh to take back undocumented Bangladeshi workers from the island nation due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said.

A 60-year-old farmer, who was suffering from flu-like symptoms, has died, hours after local administration locked down his house along with six others in Daudkandi upazila of Cumilla.