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Turkey reports 138,657 COVID-19 cases, 3,786 deaths
09:06 AM, 11 May 2020 MondayTurkey reported 1,542 new cases of COVID-19 and 47 new deaths in the past 24 hours, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said Sunday...
India’s ex-PM Manmohan Singh admitted to hospital
08:49 AM, 11 May 2020 MondayFormer Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was admitted to Delhi's AIIMS (All India Institute of Medical Sciences) on Sunday night over chest problems...
Djibouti eases COVID-19 lockdown
10:03 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayDjibouti, the country with the highest prevalence of coronavirus cases in East Africa, is due to begin lifting lockdown measures in a bid to relieve pressure on its economy...
Govt gradually relaxing shutdown to help people: PM
09:05 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday said her government is gradually relaxing the nationwide shutdown so that the people can manage ‘their lives and livelihoods’ in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Coronavirus: Shops reopen, draw fewer buyers in first day
08:50 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayAfter one and a half month closure due to coronavirus, some shopping malls and markets reopened on Sunday but there were fewer buyers. Visiting different areas, most of the shop-showroom were found closed, and those resumed trade were seen passing time idle...
Where face masks mandatory but burqas banned
07:53 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayIf an observant Muslim woman wants to get on the Paris Metro, she would be required to remove her burqa and replace it with a face mask...
Coronavirus: Five players test positive in Spain
07:33 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayFive players have tested positive for coronavirus across Spain's top two divisions, La Liga has said..
Treatment of coronavirus patients starts at Holy Family hospital
06:12 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayHoly Family Red Crescent Medical College Hospital now will be used for treatment of the coronavirus patients...allotted
Positivity during this crisis
06:05 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayThe Covid-19 pandemic has put a lot of strain on business leaders and professional managers. Companies are facing the most serious crisis where laying off or furloughing employees has become a necessity not a choice...
Malaysia extends lockdown untill June 9
04:37 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayMalaysia's conditional movement control order (MCO) will be extended for another four weeks until June 9, says Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin....
Hundreds queue for food parcels in wealthy Geneva
04:02 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayMore than 1,000 people queued on Saturday to get free food parcels in Geneva, underscoring the impact of the coronavirus epidemic on the working poor and undocumented immigrants even in wealthy Switzerland...
Gausia market workers stage protest demanding arrears
03:34 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayShop employees of Gausia market staged demonstrations and blocked Mirpur Road for an hour on Sunday demanding their arrears...
Bangladesh records highest daily deaths, new cases of COVID-19
02:42 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayBangladesh today confirmed 14 more deaths from coronavirus or COVID-19 and 887 new cases of infection. With this, the death toll has risen to 228 from the virus and a total of 14,657 people have been infected so far...
PM receives donations to fight COVID-19
02:21 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today received contributions from 57 organisations and individual mostly from various ministries, universities, and associations, for the PM’s Relief and Welfare Fund to effectively combat the situation arising out of the COVID-19 pandemic...
2000 newly recruited doctors asked to join by May 15
01:31 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayA total of 2,000 doctors recently recruited as assistant surgeons have been asked to join their workplaces within May 15. A gazette notification on their appointment signed by Dr Md Belal Hossen, Director of Health Directorate (administration) was issued on Saturday...
Some shopping malls, markets reopen amid virus fear
12:23 PM, 10 May 2020 SundayAs businesspeople have been permitted to keep shopping malls and markets open on a limited scale from Sunday, some of them reopened their shops in different parts of the country, including Dhaka and Chattogram, while some kept their businesses shut...
Webinar on COVID-19 challenges for food manufacturing companies held
11:58 AM, 10 May 2020 SundayA webinar titled “COVID-19 challenges for the food and beverage supply chain professionals” was held on Friday...
Rare syndrome tied to COVID-19 kills 3 children in New York
10:38 AM, 10 May 2020 SundayThree children in New York have died from a rare inflammatory syndrome believed to be linked to the novel coronavirus, Governor Andrew Cuomo said on Saturday, a development that may augur a pandemic risk for the very young...
Little Richard, flamboyant rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, dies
10:11 AM, 10 May 2020 SundayLittle Richard, one of the chief architects of rock ‘n’ roll whose piercing wail, pounding piano and towering pompadour irrevocably altered popular music while introducing black R&B to white America, died Saturday after battling bone cancer. He was 87...
5 migrant workers killed as truck overturns in Madhya Pradesh
09:36 AM, 10 May 2020 SundayFive migrant labourers died and 15 were injured in Indian state Madhya Pradesh late last night when a truck they were travelling in overturned in a village, about 200 km away from state capital Bhopal...