Whether a patient is infected with Covid-19 or not, no hospital in Sylhet will refuse them treatment, said Private Hospital and Diagnostic Centre Owners Association yesterday.

Allocating adequate budget to water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) sector in the upcoming national budget should be a key priority to prevent and control Covid-19, said experts yesterday.

Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Riva Ganguly Das is likely to be shifted, a year and a half after appointment. She is likely to be given either new responsibilities in the Indian Ministry of External Affairs headquarters in South Block or given another diplomatic assignment outside India, sources said.

Magistrates across the country can now virtually hold hearings on remand prayers of accused without physical presence in courts.

East Rajabazar area of Dhaka will be locked down as a red zone from Tuesday night to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A 10-member Chinese medical team with expertise in treating Covid-19 patients reached Dhaka.

Doctors will carry out “brain stem function” test on Awami League Leader Mohammed Nasim to take final decision on whether they will remove his life support system.

The High Court has stayed a lower court order that granted bail to Sohel Rana, owner of Rana Plaza -- which collapsed killing at least 1,135 people in April, 2013 -- in a corruption case.

A group of drug peddlers allegedly attacked members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) during the seizure of phensidyl bottles from Daulatpur frontier earlier today.

Expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan had laundered at least Tk 8.5 crore in Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand, according to a primary investigation conducted by Criminal Investigation Department.

Another doctor who was infected with Covid-19 has died at a hospital in Dhaka.

Sub-inspector Ekramul Islam of Sitakunda Model Police Station under Chattogram district police, who died with Covid-19-like symptoms on Saturday, later tested positive.

The High Court yesterday cleared the way for 17 lawyers of Gaibandha to practice law.

Two more workers, who suffered burns in an accident at Bangladesh Steel Re-Rolling Mills (BSRM) on Saturday, died while they were being shifted to Dhaka from Chattogram for better treatment yesterday.

A special deck has been introduced on a passenger launch running on Barguna-Dhaka route, to maintain social distancing among passengers.

Fourteen retired and three serving members of the army died of Covid-19 so far, Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) Directorate said yesterday.

Rajshahi division recorded its highest number of Covid-19 patients yesterday, a number that has more than doubled since the previous days.

Rab yesterday claimed to have arrested 13 members of a fraud gang, who had misappropriated more than Tk 1 crore from mobile banking users in the last two months.

Many Bangladeshi migrant workers are going through a tough time in Iraq due to the shutdown enforced in the country.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh yesterday inaugurated their yearlong anti-mosquito drives at Nababganj park in Lalbagh, with an aim to bring the whole mosquito control activities under a system and eradicate mosquitoes, including Aedes.