Bangladesh expresses deep condolences at the loss of lives due to the coronavirus outbreak in China as the country observes Mourning Day.

China has come to a standstill to mourn patients and medical staff killed by the coronavirus, as the world's most populous country observed a nationwide three-minute silence.

World Bank Group President David Malpass says the rapidly spreading COVID-19 pandemic was expected to cause a “major global recession” that would likely hit the poorest and most vulnerable countries the hardest.

The United States records nearly 1,500 deaths from COVID-19 between Thursday and Friday, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker, the worst 24-hour death toll globally since the pandemic began.

The World Health Organization emphasises on a stronger effort from society and governments in South-East Asia to prevent a long-haul struggle with the coronavirus pandemic and avert further loss of human life and other resources.

The United Kingdom's death toll from the coronavirus rises by 684 to 3,605 in a day.

It was a depressing Tuesday for Kanchan. For breakfast she had leftover rice from the previous night, and did not eat a single morsel till dusk. She then prepared a meal for that night and the next day, calculating and measuring so she has enough food for the days to come.

The life of visually-impaired Nizamul was already quite difficult, as his meagre income from his roadside insecticide shop in the city’s Bhasantek could barely provide for his wife and three children.

Five more people tested positive for coronavirus, bringing the country’s total to 61, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

After the government suspended the Higher Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations on March 22 amid growing uncertainty over coronavirus, education officials recommend the examinees see an opportunity in the delay and prepare better.

The number of confirmed coronavirus deaths accelerated past 55,000 yesterday as the United States, Spain and Britain grappled with their highest tolls yet and the world economy took a massive hit.

Google says it will publish users’ location data around the world to allow governments to gauge the effectiveness of social distancing measures, brought in to stem the Covid-19 pandemic.

The coronavirus pandemic is set to deal a heavy blow to the country’s overseas job market and the remittance flow as a large number of Bangladeshi migrants have already lost their jobs or were receiving low wages amid shutdowns enforced to stem the spread of the virus, say economists and researchers.

I work as a consultant anaesthetist and intensivist in a small district general hospital in north-west England.

Too little money, too much screen time, and uneven distribution of household chores and childcare—a recipe made in hell.

Plagues, pandemics, floods and blights, we were once taught, are vehicles of retribution, weeding out those who have not prepared for divine wrath—the greedy, reckless, and arrogant.

While the PM’s Tk 5,000 crore stimulus package for export-oriented industries and government efforts to address the wage and food insecurity of people have been reassuring, especially with the entire country under partial lockdown, we are realising all too well that the present crisis and the measures taken to combat it will have far-reaching effects on practically every sector of the country.

For the first time in Chattogram, a 67-year-old man tests positive for coronavirus.

The Bangladeshis stranded in India following the nationwide lockdown to curb the coronavirus outbreak will have to wait till the lockdown is relaxed to return, officials concerned say.

The English Premier League is suspended indefinitely following a meeting of the 20 soccer clubs where a series of financial measures were discussed amid the coronavirus pandemic.