Roushan Begum passed away yesterday morning at her home of old-age complications, says a press release. She was 87.

A seven-month-old baby, who was put in an isolation ward at Kushtia General Hospital on suspicion of coronavirus infection, tested negative according to a test report by IEDCR.

Rangpur Medical College has started installing polymerase chain reaction (PCR) machine, a required component for Covid-19 diagnosis. However, the kits required for testing have not arrived yet.

Authorities must look into the measles outbreak in Chattogram Hill Tracts and take steps to contain it, two organisations said yesterday.

After the first day of televised classroom lectures for secondary school students yesterday, guardians proposed that authorities address loud background music and unclear whiteboard. They also proposed the government should air these lectures through Bangladesh Television and if possible through some other private TV channels.

Civil administration and police in different districts have started distributing assistance to poor and underprivileged people who are facing severe hardship during the countrywide shutdown.

Three members of a family sustained burn injuries after a fire broke out at their tin-shed house in the capital’s Bhasantek area on Saturday night.

Jack Ma, one of the richest persons in Asia and founder of Alibaba, yesterday sent 3 lakh masks to Bangladesh.

They were cooks by profession and had a reputation for cooking quite well.

Every night before going to bed, Jannatul used to lock the room of the house they lived in.

The chicken is the most ubiquitous bird in the world. There are over 23 billion chickens in the world, providing nutrition to humanity. How did it come to be? It was domesticated from a wild bird, the Red Junglefowl, over five thousand years ago.

Three people were killed in a fire originated from a mosquito coil at a house at Bauniabad in Mirpur.

Some US citizens will be leaving Bangladesh on a chartered flight arranged by the US government, US embassy officials in Dhaka say.

Health Minister Zahid Maleque has fended questions from the press through a video conference and at one stage was asked whether anyone in his ministry is infected with coronavirus or whether he himself was quarantined.

Three members of a family sustain burns in a fire in Dhaka's Bhasantek area.

After the government shut down malls and banned unnecessary gatherings to contain the spread of coronavirus, people have also limited the number of trips to kitchen markets.

A plane departing Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport is a rare sight these days, as the country’s busiest airport has turned almost deserted due to air communication suspensions over global Covid-19 outbreak.

About 100,000 migrant workers in the Maldives, including many Bangladeshis, are at added risk from Covid-19, Human Rights Watch has said, urging authorities to ensure their access to healthcare.

At least seven people were killed and 12 injured in road accidents yesterday, report our correspondents.

The Chinese embassy yesterday confirmed that none of the 40,500 coronavirus test kits donated to Bangladesh is from Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology -- the company questioned by the Spanish government on Thursday for supplying “faulty” kits.