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Hunger forces thousands to take to street in Badda
12:45 PM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdayHunger amid coronavirus lockdown has forced thousands of people to take to the street in city's Badda area. They, most of them are daily-wage earners, began demonstration in Gulshan-Badda Link Road area around 10am, seeking relief, and the agitation was going on while making the report...
CPD for giving Tk 8,000 to 1.9cr households each for two months
12:13 PM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdayThe Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) has proposed providing with Tk 8,000 per month for two months to each of 1.9 crore households, close to the lower poverty line, as COVID-19 pandemic put the poor people in trouble...
Doctor infected with coronavirus in Savar
11:41 AM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdayA physician works at Savar Upazila Health Complex in Dhaka district was infected with COVID-19 on Monday night...
Doctor's Note: Cats and the coronavirus
11:05 AM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdayLast week, a four-year-old female Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo in New York tested positive for coronavirus. The tiger, named Nadia, is thought to have contracted the virus from a zookeeper who was showing no symptoms of the illness...
209 Bangladeshis infected with virus in a day in Singapore
09:34 AM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdaySome 209 Bangladeshi migrants among 386 Singaporeans were newly infected with the novel coronavirus in a day, said the country's health ministry. With this, a total of 878 Bangladeshi nationals contracted the deadly virus, officially called COVID-19, in the island nation...
More than 1.9 million confirmed with coronavirus
08:57 AM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdaySome 1.92 million people around the world have now been confirmed to have the new coronavirus, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. More than 119,500 have died, while nearly 450,000 have recovered, said the JHU compilation...
US coronavirus death toll tops 23,000
08:27 AM, 14 Apr 2020 TuesdayThe United States, with the world’s third-largest population, has recorded more fatalities from COVID-19 than any other country. There were a total of nearly 570,000 US cases as of Monday with over 1.8 million reported cases globally...
UK conducts 18,000 coronavirus tests in 24 hours
09:35 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayA total of 18,000 tests for coronavirus were conducted in the United Kingdom in 24 hours and the country was making good progress towards its target of 100,000 daily tests...
Police collect nearly 800 bodies from Ecuador’s virus epicentre
09:28 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayEcuador has said police removed almost 800 bodies in recent weeks from homes in Guayaquil, the epicentre of the country's coronavirus outbreak, after COVID-19...
PM urges nation to await a sunny day after COVID-19 darkness
08:58 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged the nation to await a sunny day to end soon the current dark hours in an address on the eve of the Bengali New Year Pahela Boishakh amid the global COVID-19 pandemic, gripping Bangladesh as well...
Alone you are strong, together you are stronger (you believe or not, COVID19 does)
08:25 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayThis is true that COVID19 virus follows same theory to infect millions and millions of people around the globe. COVID19 is extremely different from other COVIDs which people might have experienced at least at the level of transmission from human to human...
OMS of rice at Tk 10 per kg suspended
06:53 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayThe government has suspended a special open market sale (OMS) of rice at Tk 10 per kg after some irregularities were found in different parts of the country. Confirming the matter to Jago News, Food Secretary Musammat Nazmanara Khanum, said the OMS of rice will remain suspended until further notice...
Follow PM’s 31-point guideline to prevent coronavirus: Benazir
06:01 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayOutgoing Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) Benazir Ahmed on Monday urged the people of the country to strictly follow the Prime Minister's 31-point guideline to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country...
Stern action against irregularities over OMS rice, warns Food Minister
05:29 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayFood Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder on Monday said stern action will be taken against those involved in selling Open Market Sale (OMS) rice in the black market. Issuing a warning, the minister also asked the officials concerned of the ministry that stern legal action will be taken...
France’s coronavirus deaths reach 14,393, ICU cases continue to decrease
05:05 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayAs of Sunday, the number of people who have died from the coronavirus in France totalled 14,393, representing a one-day increase of 561...
COVID-19 claims almost 20,000 lives in Italy
04:16 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayThe coronavirus pandemic has claimed 19,899 lives in locked-down Italy since the pandemic first broke out in the country on Feb. 21, according to the latest official data released on Easter Sunday...
Coronavirus cases in US top 560,000
03:57 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayThe number of novel coronavirus or COVID-19 cases in the United States topped 560,000 on Monday afternoon, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it...
PM to address nation this evening
03:24 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayPrime Minister Sheikh Hasina will address the nation this evening on the occasion of Bangla Nabo Barsho (Bengali New Year) 1427...
Bangladesh coronavirus cases exceed 800
02:42 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondaySome 182 more people were infected with the virus, officially known as COVID-19, and of them five died from the virus in the last 24 hours, Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Malik said in DGHS's regular bulletin on coronavirus...
Extra one month's salary for office-going bank employees
01:52 PM, 13 Apr 2020 MondayThey will receive salary of current month and that of extra one month as allowance for doing office with risk among COVID-19 outbreak, according to a notification issued by Bangladesh Bank's Banking Regulation and Policy Department on Monday...