Defying the government’s request to stay home to stem the spread of coronavirus, Sharif Hossain left his house in Sonargaon before the crack of dawn last Friday.

President Hassan Rouhani urged Iranians to continue to respect measures to guard against the new coronavirus as “low-risk” business activities resumed in most of the country on Saturday, state news agency IRNA reported.

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said Saturday that public schools in the largest US city would stay closed until the end of the school year as the coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, even as the state’s governor stressed that the decision was his to make.

Hundreds of readymade garment factory workers in Savar, Narayanganj and Gazipur took to the streets yesterday demanding wages of the previous month and arrears.

The indigenous communities of the hill tracts will not celebrate their new year amid the coronavirus fears.

Some 14 percent of the country’s low-income group people saw their food stock turned down to empty amid countrywide shutdown enforced by the government to contain coronavirus spread, according to a Brac survey report.

At a time when the country is struggling to deal with the coronavirus crisis amid shutdown, some public representatives and Open Market Sale (OMS) dealers have been misappropriating rice meant for vulnerable group feeding and OMS projects.

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday sent a legal notice to the authorities concerned of the government requesting them to make a list of the country’s financially vulnerable people and distribute food and medicines among them through the army within a week.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned countries to be cautious about lifting restrictions introduced to curb the spread of the new coronavirus as global death toll from the pandemic soar passed 100,000.

Nearly three months after the International Court of Justice’s ruling on the Rohingya genocide case, Myanmar President has asked civil servants, military officials and the general people “not to commit genocide”.

Along with clothes and hands, it is also necessary to disinfect accessories such as rings, bracelets, watches, mobile phones or even wallets.

The prime minister of Nepal Kirtinidhi Bista has sent a message of greetings and good wishes on behalf of his majesty’s

Vegetable farmers are incurring severe losses amid the countrywide shutdown that has been imposed to contain coronavirus spread.

A union parishad member was shot dead by unidentified criminals in Jurachhari upazila of Rangamati on Friday night.

Several thousand Bangladeshi migrant workers in the Middle East, Italy and some Southeast Asian countries are facing acute shortage of food and other essential commodities as their income sources remained shut amid shutdown enforced by the countries to contain coronavirus spread.

The University Grants Commission yesterday said it would not accept the private universities’ request to postpone its decisions on stopping awarding grades to students without holding semester finals, enrolling new students without admission tests, and holding tests online.

Tens of millions of Indians stand to see few benefits from a coronavirus relief package worth $22.6 billion, economists and food rights activists say, a scenario that spells catastrophe for Karan Kumar, a struggling day labourer in the capital.

Singapore has suspended the use of video-conferencing tool Zoom by teachers, its education ministry said on Friday, after “very serious incidents” occurred in the first week of a coronavirus lockdown that has seen schools move to home-based learning.

In the emergency rooms of virus hotspots around the world, medical staff are seeing a greater number of men than women suffering severe symptoms of COVID-19, with obesity emerging as another potentially aggravating factor. But experts are still unsure why.

European Union finance ministers have agreed to an economic recovery plan for the coronavirus crisis that France’s minister said implicitly opens the door to jointly issued debt and which he hailed as a French success.