The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $300,000 in emergency grant for Bangladesh in its first of the planned support that the lender is preparing to help the country’s fight against the novel coronavirus pandemic.

The outbreak of coronavirus is deepening in the country and the risks on public health and overall economy is getting high.

The government has initiated a process to draw a digital map to track coronavirus cases and find out areas susceptible to contamination by using mobile users’ information -- a move that may help portray the real picture of a possible outbreak.

These are extraordinary times and the UK government has announced an extraordinary set of economic policies in response to them.

I’m panicked, as is everyone around the world now. We’re faced with an existential threat. A death sentence hovers over us as it has hovered over Wuhan, China, since December 2019.

Amid widespread outrage over police excess in enforcing restrictions on people’s movement, the authorities yesterday issued several directives asking police and other officials to act professionally.

The human dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic reach far beyond the critical health response. All aspects of our future will be affected—economic, social and developmental. Our response must be urgent, coordinated and on a global scale, and should immediately deliver help to those most in need.

Protests erupted in Tejgaon Industrial area yesterday over the plan to set up a dedicated hospital at a building in the area for treating coronavirus patients, halting the refurbishment works for hours.

In an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus infection, all educational institutions were ordered shut from March 18 to 31. Now it has been extended to April 9;

It is truly disappointing that, at a time when we need citizens of this country to be more selfless, compassionate and altruistic than ever, some unscrupulous businessmen and pharmacists are arbitrarily hiking prices of essential medications.

Europe was reeling from a staggering surge in coronavirus deaths yesterday, still days or weeks from what experts desperately hope will be the epidemic’s peak.

In the wake of the global coronavirus pandemic, Bangladeshi corporate giant Beximco Group has come forward to provide personal protective equipment (PPE), medicines, and test kits for protecting the frontline healthcare professionals who are dealing with the Covid-19 patients every day.

Mission Save Bangladesh, a joint initiative of The Daily Star, Sheba.xyz, and Samakal, unites with The Shakib Al Hasan Foundation.

Gono Kalyan Trust, a nongovernment organisation, has donated Tk five lakh to Gonoshasthaya Kendra to help it continue its research on how to curb and prevent the spread of coronavirus, a press release says.

The government has initiated a process to disseminate information about coronavirus and collect health information of mobile phone users from the mobile phone users through popular mobile applications.

The government will sue people under the Digital Security Act for sharing or publicising rumours or confusing or unverified information on social media or through any other means during the 10-day closure to fight coronavirus.

Transparency International Bangladesh has underscored the need for creating a special fund equivalent to 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product to face the ongoing coronavirus outbreak.

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon today inaugurated a month-long food distribution programme for those in need during the ongoing closure of government and private institutions to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

A 21-year-old woman has been put under institutional quarantine at Jajira Upazila Health Complex in Shariatpur today.

The US Department of State and US Embassy Bangladesh have arranged a special chartered flight for US citizens and their families departing Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka.