A constable of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP), who passed away at Chattogram General Hospital with Covid-19-like symptoms on May 23, tested positive for the virus yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, in a televised speech to the countrymen on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr, the biggest religious celebration of the Muslims, has stressed on following health guidelines amid the Covid-19 outbreak on an individual level to stay safe.

Eskayef Pharmaceuticals Limited, one of the leading drug manufacturing companies of the country, received approval to market remdesivir, an effective drug for treating coronavirus.

Twenty-eight people have died with coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) said today.

A Covid-19 patient who escaped from Sher-E-Bangla Medical College Hospital in Barishal was found at his house in Bhola today.

Another police officer, who was tested Covid-19 positive, died at Central Police Hospital in Dhaka this morning.

Thirty-three more people have tested positive with Covid-19 in Cox’s Bazar.

Thirty-six more policemen in Chattogram have tested positive for coronavirus.

Brazil has become the world no. 2 hotspot for coronavirus cases, second only to the United States, after it confirmed that 330,890 people had been infected by the virus, overtaking Russia, the Health Ministry says.

India’s Civil Aviation Minister Hardeep Singh Puri has said the government will try to resume international passenger flights -- suspended since March due to coronavirus outbreak -- before August this year.

Staying mentally strong is of utmost importance in order to recover from Covid-19, an Awami League lawmaker who was diagnosed with the virus has said following his recovery.

A Dhaka University team has decoded genome sequence of five samples of Sars-CoV-2.

A total 279 Bangladesh Ansar and Village Defence Party (BAVDP) members have been infected with Covid-19 after 11 more of the force tested positive in the last 24 hours in the country.

Coronavirus infections are on the rise in prisons as four more jail guards and one inmate tested positive in last 24 hours in the country.

Two lower court judges have tested positive with Covid-19 while the condition of a High Court judge infected with the virus is improving, Law Minister Anisul Huq said today.

A total of 722 police personnel who tested Covid-19 positive earlier made recovery till today.

NRB Global Bank and S Alam Group's Director Morshedul Alam (65) has died of Covid-19 while undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Chattogram General Hospital.

A police officer, who was infected with coronavirus, has died at Rajshahi Christian Mission Hospital.

While the number of Covid-19 positive cases as well as deaths keep rising every day, with Dhaka worst affected, many are still indifferent to maintaining social distancing and health safety guidelines.

Thousands of people continued to leave Dhaka yesterday as the government apparently relaxed travel restrictions ahead of the Eid.