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Comilla Medical College Hospital (CoMCH) is set to start conducting coronavirus test from Tuesday. The test lab will be formally inaugurated at the Microbiology department on Monday, said its principal Dr...
None of the Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar is infected with coronavirus although the standards for refugee camps are not designed to cope with the pandemic like Covid-19, the Country...
A senior executive of City Bank has died from COVID-19, the first known fatality caused by the new coronavirus among the bankers in Bangladesh. He passed away at the Mugda...
The Directorate General of Drug Administration (DGDA) did not receive the coronavirus testing kits invented by Gonoshasthaya Kendra on Sunday, said its founder Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury on Sunday. Dr Zafrullah...
Tens of thousands of workers rejoined work in 127 factories of three Export Processing Zones (EPZs) in Chattogram amid allegations that the authorities have ignored physical contact rules amid the...
An Indian woman was allegedly gang raped in a school in the desert state of Rajasthan where she had been quarantined for a night by the police amid the nationwide...
The importers urged the government to waive fines as they couldn’t unload their goods from the port within the stipulated time due to existing general holiday and absence of normal...
Afghan authorities are struggling to implement lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in a province bordering Iran where the outbreak is widening due to an influx of Afghan...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has enhanced the usance period up to 360 days from 180 days for import of agricultural implements and chemical fertiliser for minimising the COVID-19 pandemic related disruptions....
Three people including a member of staff of the deputy commissioner’s office were diagnosed with coronavirus in the district in the last 24 hours, reports UNB. District civil surgeon Doctor...
Although 4,998 people tested positive for coronavirus from March 8 to April 25, only 113 of them or 2.26 per cent, recovered during the period, showing one of the lowest...
Inter Sector Coordination Group (ISCG) partners - UN agencies, local, national and international NGOs with the government of Bangladesh have stepped up their efforts to respond to priority COVID-19 needs...
A temple of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness (Iskcon) at Swamibag in the city was put under lockdown after 34 of its followers tested positive for coronavirus on Saturday,...
Printing Industries Association of Bangladesh (PIAB) urged the Prime Minister to facilitate soft loan and financial assistance for providing four months salaries and festival allowance to its employees. PIAB demanded...
The US state of New York, the epicentre of the country's Covid-19 outbreak, will allow pharmacies to carry out tests for the virus, the governor says. Andrew Cuomo said some...
The government is planning to launch a dengue prevention cell to oversee the efforts to raise awareness on the disease and destroying breeding grounds of the virus-carrying Aedes mosquitoes, reports...
Three people were killed and five others injured when a truck hit two human haulers on Rngpur-Dinajpur highway at Paglapir in Rangpur on Sunday. Two of the deceased were identified...
A Chinese medical team of experts comprising doctors, nurses and technicians is on the way to Bangladesh to help local physicians combat the deadly COVID-19 pandemic, Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh...
Moderate to heavy rain is likely to continue until Wednesday across the country, including the capital, said Met office on Sunday. Omar Faruk, a meteorologist at Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD),...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in separate mobile court drives on Saturday fined different people and organisations a total of Tk 64,250 for allegedly violating the government’s social distancing measures amid...
The Chinese city of Wuhan, where the global coronavirus pandemic began, now has no remaining cases in its hospitals, a health official told reporters on Sunday. The novel coronavirus is...
India on Monday provided the second tranche of emergency medical supply to Bangladesh to help fight the spread of coronavirus. Indian High Commissioner in Dhaka, Riva Ganguly Das, handed over...
Forbes, an American business magazine, featured eight women global leaders, including Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who ‘deserve to be recognised’ for their efforts in dealing with COVID-19 challenges to reshape...
Two young men died after taking toxic liquor in Jashore district on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Bikash Sahani, 38, son of Domodore Sahani, resident of Bejpara area and...
From the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak, conspiracy theories about the origin and scale of the disease were spread on online platforms. Among these were the false claim that...
Plans underway to restart the economies of Canadian provinces do not depend on presuming people who become infected with coronavirus develop immunity to it, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said...
Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader on Sunday warned of strict action against traders who want to make the markets unstable during the Ramadan. He issued the warning at a...
A segment of garment factories affiliated with RMG entrepreneurs’ lobbies, BGMEA and BKMEA, have resumed operations on a limited scale on Sunday amid a nationwide lockdown over the coronavirus outbreak....
China will continue to stand and work closely with Bangladesh and the world to fight together against the pandemic for a better and shared future, said Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh...
The magnitude of how damaged the energy industry is came into full view on April 20 when the benchmark price of US oil futures, which had never dropped below $10...
The number of confirmed coronavirus patients in Bangladesh surged to 5,416 on Sunday as the country registered 418 fresh cases in the last 24 hours. Besides, five more people died...
Disgruntled workers from a few garment factories have taken to the streets of Dhaka and Gazipur demanding payment of their dues. In the capital, the workers lined the streets near...
British High Commissioner to Dhaka Robert Chatterton Dickson on Sunday said they arranged five more special chartered flights to help British nationals return to the UK from Bangladesh. The flights...
Thousands of construction workers in eight upazilas of Jashore district are going through a tough time without work and food as economic activities came to a halt because of the...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be back at work on Monday, a Downing Street spokeswoman confirmed on Saturday, after having recovered from a case of coronavirus that sent him...
Singapore registered 931 new coronavirus infections, its health ministry said on Sunday, taking the city-state’s total number of COVID-19 cases to 13,624. The vast majority of the new cases are...
The operations of nine state-owned jute mills in Khulna and Jashore regions started partially on Sunday morning after a month-long closure amid the coronavirus outbreak. The workers will have to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has called for “global coordination” as well as “putting more policy and financial focus” to effectively deal with any future world catastrophe like the present coronavirus...
Number of mobile app users still remains very insignificant compared to total number of BO (beneficiary owner's) accounts as the exchanges' promotional activities were not sufficient to make the app...
Many Americans flocked to beaches on Saturday as one Florida county expanded access and California experienced a heat wave, even as new coronavirus cases hit a record high in the...
A special train possibly belonging to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un was spotted this week at a resort town in the country, according to satellite images reviewed by a...
The group of 20 rich and emerging economies on Sunday launched an international initiative to accelerate access to health tools needed to fight the new coronavirus. The finance minister of...
The country's microfinance institutions, or MFIs, have sought Tk 225 billion refinancing fund as stimulus package to overcome the economic losses from the coronavirus pandemic. Credit and Development Forum, or...
National flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines has finally got approval to operate flights to Guangzhou of China. Managing Director of Biman Bangladesh Airlines Mokabbir Hossain confirmed this to the FE....
Two people were diagnosed with coronavirus in the last 24 hours, raising the number of confirmed cases in the district to 46 on Sunday. The new patients, aged 30-40 years,...
The government has decided to reopen the activities of some ministries and Prime Minister's Office (PMO) from today (Sunday) considering the country's interests during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The ministry...
Argentina will extend a mandatory nationwide quarantine period until May 10 in a bid to combat the advance of the coronavirus, President Alberto Fernandez said on Saturday (local time). The...
Workers started for Dhaka in droves on packed vehicles in the wee hours of Sunday from Mymensingh after some readymade garment factories reportedly threatened to fire them if they did...
Global deaths linked to the coronavirus passed 200,000 on Saturday, while confirmed cases of the virus are expected to hit 3.0 million in coming days, according to a Reuters tally....
The frontline fighters in the war against novel coronavirus, doctors and nurses, have started facing double whammy in the crisis due to corona pandemic. Health workers in the private services...
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