European Union leaders reached a "historic" deal on a massive stimulus plan for their coronavirus-hit economies at a meeting after a fractious summit that lasted almost five days.

Fifty more people have died from Covid-19 and 2,928 people tested positive for the infection yesterday.

Two coronavirus vaccine candidates have proven safe for humans and produced strong immune reactions among patients involved in separate clinical trials, doctors said yesterday.

The managing director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital (SMCH), who was on the run, has been arrested by Rapid Action Battalion from a hotel in Dhaka’s Gulshan.

Health Services Division Secretary Abdul Mannan has said Bangladesh would be among the first to get any Covid-19 vaccine developed in any country across the world.

Scientists at Oxford University say their experimental coronavirus vaccine has been shown in an early trial to prompt a protective immune response in hundreds of people who got the shot.

Fifty people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), says during a briefing.

Bangladesh Medical Research Council (BMRC) has approved the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) to conduct phase-3 human trials of a Covid-19 vaccine developed by a Chinese company.

Bangladesh ace all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan’s father, Mashrur Reza, has tested positive for coronavirus.

Sixty journalism teachers from universities across the country and 16 journalists in a joint statement ask newspaper owners to initiate a sincere attempt at ensuring the professional safety of journalists to combat the ongoing Covid-19 crisis.

A Dhaka court today rejected a bail petition of two accused, including brother-in-law of Regent Group Managing Director Masud Parvez, and sent them to jail in a case filed over possession of 2,110 pieces of Yaba pills and 10 bottles of phensidyl.

Three people, including an assistant director of Shahabuddin Medical College Hospital (SMCH), were detained on charges of conducting unauthorised antibody tests on patients to detect Covid-19 and test report forgery.

A Dhaka court today sent JKG Health Care Chief Executive Officer Ariful Chowdhury and one of his associates Sayeed Chowdhury to jail in a case filed for issuing fake Covid-19 certificates.

Thirty-seven people have died from coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, Dr Nasima Sultana, additional director general (administration) of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), said during a briefing.

The health directorate might soon announce the standard operating procedure of locking down small zones, ignoring the expert suggestions for sealing larger areas.

The country yesterday crossed the grim milestone of 2 lakh novel coronavirus cases with no visible sign of decline in the number of virus infections.

Although plasma therapy holds hope for the treatment of critical Covid-19 patients, indiscriminate use of it in the absence of a guideline is posing serious health risks in the country, experts said.

The government today decided to implement its earlier decision that all passengers need to show Covid-19 negative certificates -- from government-authorised testing centres -- at the airports before leaving the country, from July 23.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh today surprised Covid-19 patients in the city’s locked down Wari area with gifts of fruit baskets.

The World Health Organization is forming a team of international experts to go to China to study the origins of the novel coronavirus, but it will not be in place before the end of July.