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Work on a 2,000-bed isolation centre at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB) for coronavirus patients is going on in full swing. Visiting the establishment on Thursday, a UNB correspondent found...
Five more people tested positive for coronavirus at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday. Dr Gopendra Nath Acharya, divisional director of Health, said one of them is a woman...
President of Bangladesh Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Thursday said they will try to open the factories on April 26 after considering the corona situation. Talking to The...
The whole of Bangladesh is at risk of coronavirus infection now that COVID-19 patients have been detected in 43 of the 64 districts, the Directorate General of Health Services has...
The government has allocated Tk 90 billion to subsidize farmers aiming to increase agricultural production amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, reports BSS. “To meet the country’s food demand, different initiatives,...
The government is considering engaging retired physicians and nurses by giving them proper training to ensure treatment for all the COVID-19 patients. “We can make better use of the retired...
An aircraft of Bangladesh Air Force with 16 aircrew aboard will depart Shah Amanat International Airport, Chattogram for China on Friday to bring essential healthcare aids from China. Air Commodore...
An earthquake epicentred along India-Myanmar border sent tremors to different parts of Bangladesh. The 5.9 magnitude quake took place at 5:45pm on Thursday, according to the United States Geological Survey...
A man, who recently attended an event of Tablig Jamaat, tested positive for coronavirus in Bandarban, the first such case in the hill district. The patient is a 70-year old...
Newly-appointed Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed and new Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun met President Abdul Hamid at Bangabhaban on Thursday. During the...
Even in the oldest profession in the world, they have seen nothing like it. Sex workers over the world have historically battled stigmatisation, outright bans or criminalisation, false accusations of...
India's vibrant newspaper industry that reaches tens of millions of readers daily has been ravaged by declining advertising revenues due to a nationwide lockdown to fight the coronavirus, pushing leading...
Rohingya community volunteers and Imams are disseminating awareness messages on coronavirus among the forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals in their camps in Cox’s Bazar so that they can protect themselves from...
A member of Bangladesh Army was killed and 21 others were injured in a road accident near Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Hospital in the capital on Thursday. The deceased was...
China's civil aviation authority has moved to ensure air cargo transport of supplies for the fight against the novel coronavirus outbreak worldwide, reports Xinhua. The Civil Aviation Administration of China...
Europe is in eye of the storm of the COVID-19 pandemic, with the number of cases nearing a million, and should move with extreme caution when considering easing lockdowns, the...
Zahir Steel and Re-Rolling Mills Ltd () distributed food among the low-income people in the capital’s Demra area recently. These low-income earners are facing food shortages due to the ongoing...
Around 1,000 people, who have become jobless amid the ongoing shutdown, staged demonstrations in front of Satkhira Medical College Hospital in the town on Thursday demanding relief. The residents of...
The government has again allocated 24,103.04 metric tonnes of rice under the Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme to assist the families of 3, 01,288 registered fishermen in 96 upazilas of...
Fearing a convergence of respiratory allergies and spread of the coronavirus pandemic, Kashmir authorities have ordered the felling of tens of thousands of poplar trees that account for nearly a...
Bangladesh Bank has once again extended the banking hours for customers by 30 minutes to 1:00pm amid the lockdown imposed to limit the spread of the coronavirus. The central bank...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) on Thursday claimed that about 87 per cent of its listed factory workers received March wages, the deadline for the same set by...
South Korean health officials are investigating several possible explanations for a small but growing number of recovered coronavirus patients who later test positive for the virus again. Among the main...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina sent two consignments of emergency medicines for the senior citizens in Bhutan to help protect themselves from attacks of the novel coronavirus, Bangladesh’s Foreign Ministry said...
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) will submit chargesheets soon in graft cases filed against those who allegedly embezzled government relief amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) shutdown. “Four cases have already been filed...
Shehu Isah Daiyanu Dumus has run out of cash and says he only has a few handfuls of cassava flour left to eat. The 53-year-old paraplegic man usually sells phone...
China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday the World Health Organization (WHO) has said there is no evidence that the coronavirus that has infected more than 2 million people globally was...
Emirates became the first airline to conduct on-site rapid COVID-19 tests for its passengers. The testing began with Emirates’ passengers on a flight from Dubai to Tunisia on Wednesday, according...
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that data suggested the country had passed the peak on new coronavirus infections, and said he would announce “new guidelines” for reopening the...
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) chairman Iqbal Mahmood has warned of legal action against the landlords who are asking physicians, nurses and other healthcare workers to vacate their houses during the coronavirus...
The highly infectious coronavirus disease has killed 10 more people in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, taking the death toll to 60 in the country. Meanwhile, the total number...
Britain should ask for an extension to its post-Brexit transition period to ease uncertainty at a time when the world economy is being hammered by the coronavirus pandemic, the head...
A total of 366 Bangladeshi nationals, including some stranded Umrah pilgrims along with expatriate workers, arrived in Dhaka from Saudi Arabia by a special chartered flight late on Wednesday. A...
Eight people, including seven policemen, were diagnosed with Coronavirus in Gopalganj, Civil Surgeon Dr Niaz Mohammad said Thursday. He said so far, 10 policemen and seven others tested positive for...
Ispahani Group has donated Taka 10 million to Prime Minister’s relief fund to help fight the coronavirus outbreak in the country. General Manager of Ispahani Tea Ltd Mr Omar Hannan...
The ongoing coronavirus outbreak is changing the way we know the industry, work, and life. Things are uncertain and the persistent lockdown period is taking a toll on our mental...
India has brought charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder against the chief of a Muslim seminary for holding a gathering last month that authorities say led to a...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said the government is going to issue five million more ration cards for vulnerable families hit by the countrywide shutdown due to the coronavirus situation....
The World Health Organization (WHO) has said it regretted the US decision to halt funding. At a virtual press conference from Geneva on Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said...
As the month of Ramadan is set to begin next week, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has suggested that people should offer Taraweeh prayers at home instead of at mosques amid...
Nearly 700 sailors assigned to the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle’s naval group have tested positive for the coronavirus, the armed forces ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry said...
The local administration has put Sherpur under lockdown on Wednesday night to limit transmission of coronavirus. The district administration issued a public notice in this regard, saying the decision came...
China reported on Thursday fewer new coronavirus cases involving travellers arriving from overseas, but locally transmitted infections rose, with the Chinese capital seeing new local cases for the first time...
The International Organization for Migration (IOM) says it has expanded the scope of its Global Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan (SPRP) to include far-reaching interventions that aim to mitigate the...
Australia’s federal government on Thursday urged state premiers to reopen schools as it considers how to start winding back some other restrictions on movement that have helped slow the spread...
The World Health Organization (WHO) does not recommend oral poliovirus vaccine (OPV) for preventing coronavirus (COVID-19), according to its daily situation report released on Wednesday. The UN body said there...
At least two dozen ethnic Rohingyas died aboard a ship that was rescued on Wednesday with nearly 400 starving people aboard after failing to reach Malaysia and drifting for weeks,...
The death toll from the coronavirus in the United States surged past 30,000 on Wednesday as governors began cautiously preparing Americans for a post-virus life that would likely include public...
Seventy-four Bangladeshi nationals, who got stuck in India, returned home through Benapole check-post under a special arrangement on Wednesday. The body of a Bangladeshi was also brought back. Ahsan Kabir,...
Haiti will reopen its key textile industry next week, Prime Minister Joseph Jouthe said on Wednesday, suggesting the impoverished nation had escaped the worst of the global coronavirus pandemic by...
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