Gonoshasthaya Kendra Founder and Trustee Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has made it clear that they are not going to submit their rapid test kits to the drug administration through any contract research organisation (CRO).

The World Health Organization (WHO) yesterday appealed for more flight capacity to step up shipments of diagnostic tests and protective equipment to areas where Covid-19 is spreading, especially Latin America.

The government is working to develop a database of nearly 1.25 crore beneficiary families to ensure proper distribution of food aid and plug the loopholes in the current distribution system, said officials at two ministries.

Several hundreds of people yesterday blocked two highways in Jashore and Savar demanding food aid.

More than a thousand garment factories reopened yesterday amid coronavirus fears with many workers finding it difficult to reach workplaces for a lack of transport.

A total of 436 doctors have so far been infected with Covid-19 across the country till today, says Foundation for Doctors Safety Rights and Responsibilities (FDSR), a platform of doctors.

Jamalpur civil surgeon and five others have tested positive for Covid-19 in the district.

Bangladesh Public Service Commission has finalised its recommendation to recruit 2,000 doctors and 5,000 nurses to tackle the coronavirus crisis.

Many vendors, who are now jobless due to the ongoing countrywide shutdown, are engaging in the sale of PPE to make a living. Public health experts warn that the use of these PPE suits can be fatal for health and a source of Covid-19 infection.

In many parts of the world, common people are still indifferent to social and physical distancing. At the time of the Covid-19 epidemic, in our country, people from urban and rural areas are still wandering outside, gathering at the market, in the tea shop without any kind of precaution or social distance.

A health worker was quarantined in a small thatched-hut on a raised platform just inches away from a water body at Gopalganj's Kotalipara upazila for seven days until she was rescued yesterday afternoon.

The Kotwali police station of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) has taken an exceptional initiative to ensure social distancing for preventing the spread of Covid-19.

Tech company Walton hands over prototypes of three locally developed ventilators to the Information Communication Technology division for placing it before the Directorate General of Health Services for clinical trials.

Member of a voluntary organisation has been accused of urging Hindus to convert to Islam when providing relief in Sreemangal upazila of Moulvibazar. This has led to widespread criticism on social media.

Needs Assessment Working Group (NAWG)​ said vulnerable regions require immediate support to cope with the impacts of a coronavirus outbreak in Bangladesh.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines is to operate three special flights -- one from Dhaka and two from Japan -- to repatriate citizens of the two countries following a ban on scheduled passenger flights due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Three people died of coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours, the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) says.

US President Donald Trump is repeatedly warned about the dangers of the novel coronavirus in intelligence briefings in January and February, The Washington Post reported late Monday.

Sanity, said a line in an old movie, exists in every contract. It is so in every social compact that precedes the establishment of any society or social grouping.

Shop owners yesterday urged the commerce ministry to allow the opening of retail and wholesale stores from the first of May seeing that several garments factories were given the go-ahead to reopen.