The new coronavirus pandemic could severely disrupt access to anti-malaria nets and drugs in sub-Saharan Africa, the World Health Organization said yesterday, warning that malaria deaths risked doubling if efforts are not urgently scaled up.

Dhaka dwellers witnessed a brief but heavy rain coupled with thunder showers yesterday afternoon.

The LGRD and cooperatives ministry has suspended seven more union parishad chairmen and three members over embezzlement of relief materials and irregularities in relief distribution amid the Covid-19 crisis.

The world should fight climate change with the same determination it is showing in the battle against the new coronavirus, the United Nations said yesterday.

A suspected drug peddler was killed in what Rab said was a “gunfight” with officers in Joypurhat early yesterday.

Fish farmers in Mymensingh region are incurring losses because of transport disruption caused by Covid-19 shutdown.

A 10-month-old baby have been tested positive for coronavirus in Chattogram.

Law enforcers and local administration officials recovered over 480 kg rice and 42 litres of soyabean oil meant for the poor in Noakhali and Mymensingh on Tuesday.

At least six more people died in four districts with coronavirus symptoms between Monday night and yesterday evening.

They can’t believe their eyes. Are they dreaming, they wonder. None else but Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman himself is there right in their midst, reports Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha.

Today is the 22nd death anniversary of Shazneen Tasnim Rahman.

The world is facing widespread famine “of biblical proportions” because of the coronavirus pandemic, the chief of the UN’s food relief agency has warned, with a short time to act before hundreds of millions starve.

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Tuesday announced a $26 billion relief package to support the economy and the vulnerable during the coronavirus pandemic.

Whether it came from a bat or a pangolin is not certain, but one thing is: the coronavirus outbreak that has killed tens of thousands and turned the world upside down comes from the animal world.

A band of Singapore superheroes created to help in the coronavirus fight has been shelved after internet users criticised the campaign for being too light-hearted and for mocking Liverpool football club.

Survivors of last year’s devastating Islamist suicide bombings in Sri Lanka held a private anniversary service yesterday because of a coronavirus lockdown as the nation paid tribute with a two-minute silence.

The British parliament returned from an extended Easter break, with MPs encouraged to attend via videolink for the first time as a result of the coronavirus outbreak.

Researchers Monday unveiled a coronavirus “heat map” powered by Facebook data which is aimed at helping track the spread of the disease and plan for reopening society.

The World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday that all available evidence suggests the novel coronavirus originated in animals in China late last year and was not manipulated or produced in a laboratory.

A Bogura court yesterday sent a man to jail on charges of raping his housemaid.