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Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) on Tuesday started test to detect coronavirus or COVID-19 infection using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) machine. The PCR machine was set up on the third...
Dr. Shafi Bhuiyan, an internationally-recognised leader in global public health and education initiative, has suggested people to listen to health professionals only as confusing messages from unlimited sources are flooding...
Three Tablig Jamaat attendees tested positive for coronavirus in Singair upazila of Manikganj on Tuesday. Civil Surgeon Dr Anwarul Amin Akhond said the three people who attended a Tabligh Jamaat...
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) with support from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the Government of Bangladesh, is rolling out $1.5 million emergency food support for...
To support the Government’s efforts in the fight against COVID-19, Marico Bangladesh has contributed Tk 5.0 million to the Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund recently. Marico officials handed over...
The Bangladesh unit of the Tabligh Jamaat, an Islamic missionary movement, has instructed all followers to return home amid the coronavirus outbreak. Tabligh Jamaat leader M Yunus Sikder issued a...
India, the world’s main supplier of generic drugs, said on Tuesday it will allow limited exports of the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine that US President Donald Trump has touted as a...
The Management of Midland Bank Limited has donated Tk 1.0 million to Prime Minister’s Relief and Welfare Fund to help fight the coronavirus. The Management of the Bank has contributed...
Tourism sector of Bangladesh might face a loss of Tk 60.00 billion from January to December this year due to coronavirus outbreak as the sector has been affected most by...
The Ministry of Industries on Tuesday said the country has a stock of over 10.26 lakh metric tons of edible salt which is adequate as per the demand of the...
The Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity on Tuesday requested transport sector owner-labour unions to stand beside millions of road and water transports workers who got unemployed due to the nationwide shutdown....
S Alam Group, one of the largest industrial groups of the country, is working to prevent the spread of the Corona virus (COVID-19) in the country. This collaborative work is...
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has issued an instruction on opening mobile financial service (MFS) accounts for all workers and employees of export-oriented industries and factories by April 20. “The central bank...
Abdul Mazed, a key fugitive convict in the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been sent to jail following his arrest in Dhaka. Judge AM Zulfikar Hayat of Dhaka...
To ensure an early detection of deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) in one’s body and seek help to get cured, Dhaka city unit of Bangabandhu Parishad has launched a self-test app. A...
Australian authorities launched a criminal investigation Sunday into a COVID-19 infected cruise ship which was allowed to dock in Sydney before releasing thousands of passengers directly into the community, reports...
Bangladesh Bank has raised the Export Development Fund (EDF) to $5.0 billion in line with the government's efforts to limit the economic impacts of the coronavirus crisis. Exporters will now...
South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) has welcomed the government's financial package to address the crisis caused by the coronavirus. “As we have suggested for the two-year economy recovery...
The University Grants Commission (UGC) will donate one-day salary of its officials and staff to the Prime Minister’s relief fund to help fight the coronavirus outbreak in the country. In...
India’s 21-day lockdown is set to end next week but several state leaders have called for an extension or only a partial lifting of restrictions, saying is the only way...
The number of coronavirus cases in Russia rose by more than 1,000 for the first time to reach 7,497 in the past 24 hours, the country’s crisis response centre said...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in intensive care on Tuesday after receiving oxygen support for serious COVID-19 complications, leaving his foreign minister to lead the government’s response to...
Five people died from the novel coronavirus in Bangladesh in the last 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities in the country to 17, said the Institute of Epidemiology,...
Morocco made wearing face masks mandatory starting on Tuesday for anyone allowed to go out during the coronavirus outbreak, the government said. The masks will be sold at a subsidised...
The mother of Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola has died after being diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, the English Premier League champions said on Monday (UK standard time). “The Manchester...
Two women with symptoms of novel coronavirus have died in Khulna and Sylhet. In Khulna, an old woman suffering from fever, sneeze and cough died at Khulna Medical College Hospital...
Germany’s confirmed coronavirus infections rose by 3,834 in the past 24 hours to 99,225 on Tuesday, rising again after four consecutive days of drops, data from the Robert Koch Institute...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has announced the introduction of a “special health insurance” for the physicians, nurses and others working in containing the novel coronavirus, BSS reports. “We want to...
An old woman suffering from fever, sneeze and cough died at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) on early Tuesday. Rupsha Upazila Health Officer Dr Anisur Rahman said the woman, who...
Samsung Electronics said on Tuesday its first-quarter (Q1) operating profit likely managed to rise slightly from a slump a year earlier, as solid chip sales helped cushion the blow from...
Mainland China reported on Tuesday a drop in new coronavirus cases after closing its borders to virtually all foreigners to curb imported infections, while the central city of Wuhan, epicentre...
Abdul Mazed, a key fugitive convict in the killing of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, has been arrested, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan. The minister said on Tuesday, "The arrest has...
Italy’s government has approved new emergency decree that will offer more than 400 billion euros (352 billion pounds) worth of liquidity and bank loans to companies hit by the coronavirus...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said she already asked the authorities concerned to list those who are providing healthcare service from the frontlines during this coronavirus outbreak in order to...
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladesh may witness a worse coronavirus outbreak in April and called on everyone to be on the alert for this. She, however, expressed hope...
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said the Covid-19 pandemic underscores the urgent need to strengthen the global health workforce. A new report, The State of the World’s Nursing...
An MA student of Dhaka University (DU) has died in Khagrachhari after several hospitals in the capital allegedly denied him treatment fearing that he was a coronavirus patient. Suman Chakma,...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was moved to an intensive care unit at a London hospital on Monday after his symptoms of COVID-19 infection worsened. Below are some immediate comments...
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Tuesday approved the extension of lockdown and home quarantine measures covering more than half of the population, a crisis panel official said, in an effort...
A second US company, Inovio Pharmaceuticals, is poised to begin safety test of a vaccine against coronavirus (COVID-19) on Monday. The pharmaceuticals company said Monday that the US Food and...
People are subjected to discrimination during assessment of their tax files due to the absence of a central guideline from the National Board of Revenue, or NBR. The intervention by...
A 72-year-old freedom fighter, who died at the isolation unit of General Hospital in the city, was not suffering from coronavirus, Chattogram Civil Surgeon said Monday night. Alimullah of Sitakunda...
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said on Tuesday she had rejected her health minister’s offer to resign for breaching nationwide lockdown rules as doing so would jeopardise plans to...
Multinational companies suffered losses between 7.25 per cent and 62.23 per cent in last one year until March 25 this year in tandem with the price erosion by most of...
Some nine listed companies have postponed their annual general meeting (AGM) due to `unavoidable' circumstances created following the outbreak of COVID-19. The companies' AGMs for the year ended on December...
The dealers appointed by the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) have posted trucks at different parts of the city on Monday, but with a very limited number of items. As...
In the wake of COVID-19 pandemic, the government has temporarily put on hold some conditions for importing all kinds of milk food products including baby milk, officials said. From now...
Incepta Pharmaceuticals has stopped exporting Hydroxychloroquine under the brand name 'Reconil' to meet its possible demand to fight COVID-19 here. It has also scaled up production of the medicine that...
State-run Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation, or BPC, is set to cease imports of petroleum products in May as the ongoing nationwide shutdown to combat the coronavirus pandemic has dented domestic demand...
Often bypassed by banks, the informal sector is unlikely to get much benefit from the government's Tk 727.50 billion stimulus package, fear economists. They hailed the Prime Minister for unveiling...
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