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Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) on Friday instructed all its member factories to keep their units closed until April 04 amid the coronavirus outbreak. The trade body gave...
Britain has advised its citizens to leave Bangladesh as coronavirus cases are surging. Passengers can use Biman Bangladesh’s flights which are still open to London and Manchester, the British High...
A Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) testing machine, to be used for detecting coronavirus or COVID-19 and other complicated diseases, reached the laboratory of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday...
The owners of poultry hatcheries in Jashore district are counting huge losses as poultry farm owners stopped buying chickens abruptly following the announcement of a 10-day general holiday amid coronavirus...
As coronavirus has started taking its toll on the Bangladesh economy alongside the public health, economists think the government needs to immediately work out a well-thought-out recovery plan and action...
The US now has more confirmed cases of coronavirus than any other country, with more than 85,500 positive tests, reports BBC. According to the latest figures collated by Johns Hopkins...
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Friday urged the people of the country to join the fight against coronavirus by maintaining social distance, personal cleanliness and staying home. He made...
As the coronavirus spread across Asia in February, Indian manufacturers of personal protective equipment contacted the health ministry urging the government to stock up, reports Reuters. They got no response,...
China’s auto industry has gone from zero to sixty in its post-pandemic campaign drive, with manufacturers and dealers quick to woo back lockdown-weary consumers through campaigns as unusual as a...
Officials in charge of staging Tokyo’s Olympic Games crowded around a low table inside prime minister Shinzo Abe’s residence late Tuesday, wincing as they spoke by phone with the head...
As a shutdown over the novel coronavirus brings the country to a standstill and earnings for people of low income have almost dried up, several members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police...
Malaysia announced a stimulus package worth 250 billion ringgit ($58.28 billion) on Friday, its second in a month, to help cushion the economic blow from the coronavirus pandemic. The number...
A young man was stabbed to death at Kalakochua in Cumilla’s Burichang upazila on Dhaka-Chattogram highway early Friday. The deceased was identified as Billal Gazi, son of Sabuj Gazi in...
Chinese President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump during a phone call on Friday that he would have China’s support in fighting the coronavirus, as the United States faces...
The local administration has put Katakhali village in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna under lockdown to prevent the transmission of deadly coronavirus. Sarkar Mohammad Raihan, executive magistrate and upazila nirbahi officer,...
India’s already-slowing economy weakened to at least an eight-year low this quarter and will slow even more sharply in the next six months due to the global coronavirus pandemic, a...
South African security forces have begun enforcing a three-week nationwide lockdown in an effort to stem the spread of the coronavirus. All but essential movement is forbidden and both the...
US gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 2.1 per cent in the fourth quarter (Q4) in the third or final estimate, unrevised from previous estimates, the...
Four more people, including two doctors, have been diagnosed with COVID-19 disease in Bangladesh, taking the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 48. However, no patient died...
For Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were going to be its springboard to attain a long-held goal - making significant inroads into Japan’s lucrative smartphone market where...
The Japanese government said on Friday there was no need now to declare a state of emergency, after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe the previous day described the coronavirus as a...
India's western state of Maharashtra will be releasing about 11,000 prisoners to reduce overcrowding in prisons in a bid to curb the risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, state home minister...
Li Yu is happy she sold six pieces of roasted corn on the day she reopened her stall after travel restrictions were lifted in Jingzhou, but she worries about the...
The government has rolled back an order on monitoring of the coverage of the coronavirus outbreak by the media. The information ministry in the order dated Wednesday said it had...
US ambassador in Dhaka Earl Miller on Thursday laid emphasis on having the same courage and discipline like Bangladesh's Liberation War to fight back against COVID-19. "During the Liberation War,...
The Islamic Foundation has urged Muslims to limit their presence during Juma prayers at mosques to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The Foundation issued a set of instructions for...
The number of US coronavirus infections climbed above 82,000 on Thursday (local time), surpassing the national tallies of China and Italy, as New York, New Orleans, and other hot spots...
Leaders of the Group of 20 major economies pledged on Thursday to inject over $5.0 trillion into the global economy to limit job and income losses from the coronavirus and...
Queues formed at supermarkets and stores in Tokyo on Friday as residents in the Japanese capital prepared for a weekend at home after the city’s governor called on them to...
The number of jobs lost around the world due to the coronavirus crisis could be "far higher" than the 25 million the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimated just a week...
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman bin Abdulaziz has urged the G20 leaders to boost funding for a coronavirus vaccine, resume the normal flow of goods and services as soon as possible,...
Bangladeshi healthcare organisation Digital Healthcare Solutions has launched a coronavirus symptom check online. It is available free of cost. Anybody can go to their site (https://coronachecker.dh.health/) and give his or...
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) has recommended all its member factories to keep their units closed untill April 04 amid the coronavirus outbreak.The trade body took the decision...
The number of Americans filing claims for unemployment benefits surged to a record of more than 3 million last week as strict measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic ground the...
The spread of the novel coronavirus has left the vulnerable and marginalised in grave peril as daily wage earners, people displaced by conflict, health workers and prisoners face huge risks...
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared on Wednesday that all Russians would receive paid leave next week as part of measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. All necessary institutions and...
Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company has raised the ceiling emergency balance of pre-paid household consumers to Tk 2000 from existing Tk 200 during the government-declared holidays, said Ali Mohammad...
Chinese researchers have disclosed that soil water content is improved when the plant species community composition is increased. Soil water and nutrient resources are fundamental for the healthy development of...
South Sudan has imposed a 30-day night-time curfew as part of measures aimed at forestalling the spread of COVID-19 into the east African country. President Salva Kiir issued an executive...
The government has filed a “departmental case” against suspended Kurigram Deputy Commissioner Sultana Pervin and three other officials in her office over the controversial jailing of a journalist by a...
The government has assigned 15 officials to monitor the coverage of the coronavirus outbreak by 30 private television channels in an effort to curb rumours and fake news about the...
The second batch of medical logistics, including 10,000 testing kits, 10,000 sets of personal protective equipment (PPE) and 1,000 infrared thermometers, arrived in Dhaka from Kunming, China on Thursday afternoon....
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Thursday said Pakistan desires to further strengthen its relations with Bangladesh based on the principles of mutual respect and understanding. “Our two countries have...
Three more people infected with coronavirus died overnight in India as the government sought on Thursday to improve basic services to 1.3 billion people locked indoors to slow the spread...
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has launched a 2-billion-US-dollar global humanitarian response plan to fight COVID-19 in some of the world's most vulnerable countries. "COVID-19 is menacing the whole of humanity,...
The Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) on Thursday confirmed five more coronavirus cases, taking the total to 44 in Bangladesh. The death toll from the disease has...
Global food security concerns are mounting with around a fifth of the world's population already under lockdown to fight the widening coronavirus pandemic that has infected over 470,000 people in...
As the government-declared 10-day general holiday started on Thursday and a large number of people left the capital amid the growing fear of coronavirus, Dhaka city wore a complete deserted...
The future price of orange juice has spiked by more than 20 per cent this month as consumers look for healthy products during the coronavirus pandemic. While demand has risen,...
Steven Dick, deputy head of mission at the British Embassy in Budapest, has died after contracting coronavirus, the Foreign Office said on Wednesday, reports Reuters. The 37-year-old diplomat died in...
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