Thousands of Bangladeshis stranded in India call for help to return

Thousands of Bangladeshi nationals, who went to India for treatment and subsequently were left stranded by the country's coronavirus lockdown, have called Bangladesh government help to return home... Things are getting worse for them there as their money and patience ran out, experience police harassment when try to go out for medicine and food.

Bangladesh receives 300,000 masks from Jack Ma Foundation

After coronavirus testing kits, Jack Ma Foundation and Alibaba Foundation sent 300,000 masks to Bangladesh which arrived in Dhaka on Sunday afternoon...

Modi apologises to India's poor over coronavirus lockdown

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked the nation’s poor for forgiveness on Sunday, as the economic and human toll from his 21-day nationwide lockdown deepens and criticism mounts about a lack of adequate planning ahead of the decision...

Will we starve to death?

Low income people or day labourers have been suffering much from the 10-day general leave or nationwide apparent lockdown announced by the government as they are passing days idle with no works...

Domestic workers being infected by their employers

When the coronavirus outbreak reached Hong Kong, domestic worker Jinkie Alhambra followed guidance from the government and stayed home on her day off...

Youth with coronavirus symptoms dies at RMCH

A young man with symptoms of novel coronavirus died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday night...

Akij Group resumes construction work for corona hospital

Akij Group, a business conglomerate of the country, today resumed the work to construct a 301-bed specialized hospital for the coronavirus infected patients in the capital’s Tejgaon industrial area...

No new coronavirus case detected in 48 hrs: IEDCR

No new coronavirus case has been reported in the last 48 hours, keeping the total number of confirmed cases in the country at 48. Director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) Prof Meerjady Sabrina Flora said at a press briefing...

Cops use “coronavirus helmet” to raise awareness on COVID-19

In a bid to spread awareness about the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, a local artist in collaboration with a police officer in Chennai has made what he calls a "corona helmet" to dissuade commuters from coming out on the streets during the nationwide lockdown...

Two with coronavirus symptoms die in Barishal

Two persons with coronavirus symptoms died at Barishal's Sher-e-Bangla Medical College (SBMC) on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Jakir Hossain, a resident of Patuakhali, and Niru Begum, 45, wife of Md Dulal of Puranpara in the city...

Covid-19 cases in India cross 1,000 mark; thousands on streets

India on Saturday recorded 135 new cases of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), one of the highest single-day spikes, as the number of cases crossed 1,000 amid a mounting challenge of controlling the spread of the disease that has killed about 30,000 people across the world...

Saudi Arabia extends all flight suspensions, workplace attendance

Saudi Arabia has decided to extend the suspension of all domestic and international flights and workplace attendance until further notice, Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported on Sunday quoting an official source in the Ministry of Interior...

Bangladesh ready to work with UK on corona issue: PM

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed sadness to her British counterpart Boris Johnson who has contracted novel coronavirus and said that her government is ready to work closely with the United Kingdom (UK) government...

Canadian PM’s wife recovers from coronavirus illness

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s wife said Saturday that she has recovered from being ill from COVID-19 disease caused by the new coronavirus...

No quarantine, but travel advisory for NY, CT and NJ: Trump

President Donald Trump backed away from calling for quarantine for coronavirus hotspots in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, instead directing Saturday night that a “strong Travel Advisory” be issued to stem the spread of the outbreak...

Int’l passenger flights to remain suspended until April 7

Bangladesh on Saturday extended the international passenger flights suspension to April 7 to stop the transmission of coronavirus in the country...

Coronavirus hits Bangladesh poultry industry hard

The coronavirus pandemic has badly affected the poultry business in Bangladesh, with poultry hatchery owners count huge losses. When hatching a chicken costs Tk 32, now hatchery owners have to sell the same at Tk 1 as the poultry farmers about stopped buying chickens from them due to apparent lockdown.

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Akij Group postpones its ‘emergency’ hospital project after ‘attack by locals’

“We’ve decided to postpone our project following an attack on our employees engaged in building the hospital,” Bashir Uddin, Managing Director of Akij Group said...

Global coronavirus cases exceed 6 lakh

The epidemic infected as many as 614,231 people and killed 28,240 globally, according to Worldometer, a website which compiles number of new coronavirus cases and deaths from it...