Training activities and trial test for coronavirus detection was inaugurated yesterday at Barishal’s Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.

CARE Bangladesh provided healthcare workers in Gazipur, including doctors, 100 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE), said a press release.

United Group has donated Tk 5 crore to Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund on Sunday to help combat the coronavirus outbreak, according to a press release.

The Detective Branch (DB) of police yesterday claimed to have arrested the former Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) official for killing his wife and two children in Dakshinkhan area of the capital in February.

Six houses of Tabligh Jamaat members who returned to Dhaka’s Savar from Sylhet are placed under lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The local administration in Rangpur has locked down 10 houses in Khandakar Para village in Mithapukur upazila’s Balarhat union, after a student there tested positive for coronavirus today.

Venture Capital and Private Equity Association of Bangladesh (VCPEAB) has submitted a proposal to the finance minister seeking Tk 450 crore grant for salary payment of start-up business employees and office rent for six months.

A mobile court has sentenced a local Awami League leader and a businessman one-month jail each for misappropriating 1,440 kilogrammes of rice meant for relief in Singra upazila of Natore.

A female student of Jagannath University (JnU), who lives in Dhaka’s Uttara with her family, tests positive for Covid-19.

Around 5,000 prisoners, who have been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, are yet to know how long they will have to serve in jails, as the Supreme Court has not delivered its verdict on the long pending review petition involving the dispute over the tenure of life imprisonment.

Twenty anti-tobacco organisations yesterday urged the government to temporarily ban the sale of cigarettes during the coronavirus pandemic.

Save the Children has made an urgent call for international assistance to help Bangladesh meet a surge in demand for ventilator machines to cope with the Covid-19 outbreak, and to help avert a humanitarian disaster in the country.

The government has launched a national hotline, 333, for providing humanitarian assistance and food to the needy during the nationwide shutdown amid the coronavirus outbreak.

As life has almost come to a halt due to shutdowns triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, lower income people across the country are left to languish.

His Friday mornings are spent looking at the Kirtankhola river, sitting along Barishal Launch Ghat pontoon, waiting for launches to arrive, with a weariness on his face. The moment one arrives, he will hop on-board or wait near the exit to sell water bottles to passengers.

Even amidst the coronavirus-induced lockdown, three people were killed in separate road accidents over the last two days, report our correspondents.

Sajida Foundation and Renata Ltd, formerly Pfizer Ltd, have teamed up to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic, said a press release.

An assistant chief of Cumilla Central Jail security was arrested over possession of yaba pills on Monday afternoon.

Tabligh Jamaat Bangladesh yesterday urged its followers, who are now in different congregations (preaching tours/spending days at mosques), to return home from their respective tours.

Shah Cement has taken an initiative to provide food items and handwash to construction workers and their families considering that many such workers have become jobless during the coronavirus situation, says a press release.