Regent Hospital owner Mohammad Shahed was at large till last light, four days after a mobile court sealed off the hospital in the capital’s Uttara on charges of issuing several thousand fake Covid-19 test reports.

The deputy commissioners of nearly half of the country’s 64 districts continue disregarding the government’s directive to upload information on allocation and disbursement of relief and financial aid on their respective websites.

Sahara Khatun was a key figure among those who led the Awami League during difficult times and who remained by the side of party chief Sheikh Hasina through thick and thin for decades.

Two thirds of the country’s over 15,000 private clinics and diagnostic centres have been running without any valid licence since 2018 facing almost no consequences.

Though the number of new Covid-19 cases dropped last week compared to the week before, experts say there is no room for complacency as the rate of infection remained almost static.

After several months of wait in Bangladesh, expatriate worker Enamur Rahim was scheduled to fly back to Italy next week.

With 3,360 more coronavirus cases recorded in the last 24 hours until yesterday, the country reached another sad milestone of 1,75,000 positive cases since the outbreak began.

With the number of Covid-19 cases increasing sharply in the country, the government is going to set up centralised oxygen supply system in 50 more public hospitals to ensure uninterrupted oxygen supply to patients.

Bangladeshi lawmaker Shahid Islam Papul is not a Kuwaiti citizen, Kuwait’s interior ministry said yesterday.

Deputy leader of the opposition and Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader yesterday told parliament that the nation would have to bear the brunt of Regent Hospital’s Covid-19 test scam as various countries have already banned Bangladeshis from entering their territories.

More than Tk 100 crore was misappropriated by 14 contractors from the coffers of various government medical colleges and hospitals, as per a list sent out by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) yesterday.

Immigration police have been asked to remain alert so that Regent Group Chairman Md Shahed, who is accused in a case over false Covid-19 certificates, cannot leave the country.

Saying that her government won’t tolerate any corruption and irregularities, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday told parliament that action would continue against the corrupt people irrespective of their identities.

“He is a man of dangerous fraudulent nature.” This is how a home ministry letter back in 2016 described Mohammad Shahed, a person with many “identities”.

When there is already too much stress due to the pandemic, some grim reports have added to the nation’s woes. A lawmaker detained in Kuwait; the country’s ineligibility for Schengen visas; restriction on travel to South Korea and Japan,

While the entire month of June saw the infection rate hover between 21 and 23 percent, July sees no improvement.

The fake Covid-19 tests have not only posed a risk to public health but also put the Bangladeshi expatriates in trouble.

The health services division of the health ministry knew that Regent Hospital’s licence had expired years ago but it still went ahead and signed a deal in early March for treating Covid-19 patients there.

If Laxmipur-2 MP Mohammad Shahid Islam Papul is found to be a Kuwaiti citizen, his seat will be declared vacant, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said in the parliament.

The government borrowed a staggering amount from banks last fiscal year mainly due to the ongoing economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic, a development that is poised for a macroeconomic imbalance in the country.