Salaries of about 87 percent of the garment workers have been disbursed, the Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) claimed yesterday as workers staged demonstrations demanding wages in different parts of the country, mostly in the capital and its adjacent districts.

Yasmin Islam, a nurse at the surgery ward of Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, received a call from her landlord while she was at work last week.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government would bring 50 lakh more poor people under its ration card facilities to provide them with rice at Tk 10 per kg to mitigate their sufferings caused by the coronavirus outbreak.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government announced various stimulus packages worth around Tk 1 lakh crore to save the people and the economy from the crisis arising out of the coronavirus pandemic.

Amid allegations over theft of rice meant for poor, the government has postponed the open market sale (OMS) and taken an initiative to issue cards for lower-income people across the country to sell them rice at Tk 10.

The country yesterday recorded 219 confirmed cases of Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day since the first case was reported more than a month ago -- with four more deaths from the viral disease.

Flaws in detecting suspected coronavirus cases and collecting samples might be contributing to a relatively low number of positive cases compared to other countries at similar stage, say experts.

Md Moyeen Uddin, assistant professor at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (SOMCH), died of Covid-19 yesterday.

The government incentives announced so far to deal with agricultural fallout of Covid-19 provide little relief for farmers awaiting harvest of Boro, the principal crop of the country.

The government’s disease control agency, IEDCR, has been able to track down the patient zero in a cluster but failed to identify how he or she got infected with coronavirus in the first place.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque yesterday admitted that the community transmission of novel coronavirus began in the country and reported 182 new Covid-19 cases, so far the highest in a single day.

At the crack of dawn today, an air of festivity was supposed to flow across the country.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday expressed optimism that the darkness of the coronavirus pandemic would fade away one day.

Six people died with coronavirus-like symptoms in five districts since Sunday afternoon.

Garment workers continued their protests yesterday in several areas in the capital, on its outskirts and Chattogram amid the ongoing shutdown, demanding payment of wages for March, and protesting termination and layoffs of workers.

Although there are criticisms over the role of some healthcare employees, many of them are giving it all on the frontline of the battle against coronavirus.

Yet another paid for his brutality while assassinating Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members as sacked army captain Abdul Majed, a “self-confessed killer” of the Father of the Nation, walked to the gallows early yesterday.

Bangladesh has installed the South Korean model kiosks to collect samples for Covid-19 tests across the country with the support of a non-government organisation.

The country yesterday recorded 139 confirmed cases of Covid-19 -- the highest in a single day since the first case was reported more than a month ago -- with four deaths due to the disease.

At a time when underprivileged people across the country are suffering from hunger and unemployment, theft of relief goods and corruption in the management are making matters worse.