Brac Urban Development Programme (UDP) today started the essential food package distribution campaign among people in two slums --- Korail in Banani and Shahidnagar in Lalbagh -- of the capital amid the coronavirus outbreak.

Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to extend its food support to around one lakh people of the city who have become unemployed during the 10-day shutdown to avoid spread of coronavirus.

Ten prisoners at Chattogram Central Jail have made 4,000 facemasks in the last eight days in an attempt to better protect themselves from the coronavirus.

It took nature a mere few weeks to reclaim what has always been hers. And she returned after a long time in vast stretches of the Cox’s Bazar sea beach.

An SSC examinee who had been suffering from cold, cough and fever for the last four days dies in Bhandaria upazila of Pirojpur.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir underscores the need for forming a national committee to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus across the country.

A total of eight Bangladeshis die of Covid-19 in the US over the last 24 hours.

Two more persons have tested positive with coronavirus (Covid-19) in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours, taking the number of the confirmed cases to 51, says IEDCR.

A total of 34,000 permanent and temporary workers of 46 tea gardens in Sylhet and Habiganj have gone on strike, demanding suspension of work in order to prevent the transmission of coronavirus.

Bangladeshi photojournalist A Hai Swapan dies from coronavirus in New York.

The coronavirus pandemic is expected to sharply slow growth in developing economies in East Asia and the Pacific as well as China, the World Bank says in an economic update.

The National Board of Revenue directs its customs offices to release industrial raw materials alongisde imported essential commodities, emergency medical equipment related products and services.

“Have you brought food for us?” This was what 10-year-old Sohana asked these correspondents at the beginning of this conversation at Kamalapur Railway Station on Sunday noon.

The government should help private hospitals procure ventilators because there could be an acute shortage of the key device in the fight against coronavirus, Labaid Limited Managing Director AM Shamim said.

Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital and Khulna Medical College Hospital yesterday received polymerase chain reaction machines that will be used to test for Covid-19.

Following the declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, the global community has faced the insurmountable task of addressing the rising burden of disease.

The government is likely to extend the ongoing shutdown for at least a week as part of its efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus.

All around the world, the numbers are climbing. Each day registers thousands of new cases and lives lost. In Europe, now the epicenter of the pandemic, governments know that the worst is yet to come and are implementing increasingly restrictive measures to enforce social distancing and isolation.

As the coronavirus gains a foothold in the country, the increasing vulnerability of millions of orphaned and destitute children remains largely unaddressed.

The tea workers of Shamshernagar Tea Garden in Kamalganj upazila, Moulvibazar, took matters into their own hands in defiance of the garden management and stopped work from March 27.