News of general holiday over Covid-19 run by different media outlets is false and baseless, health ministry sources said today.

The SARS COV-2 has mutated 4,604 times in Bangladesh since the first week of December last year, of which 34 were unique mutations which means they do not match with any other mutation found in the world.

Covid-19 appears likely to develop into a seasonal disease, the United Nations said Thursday (March 18), cautioning though against relaxing pandemic-related measures simply based on meteorological factors.

The DGHS has proposed that the government not reopen educational institutions and hold any public examinations in the wake of rising number of Covid-19 patients.

It is unrealistic to think the world will be done with the Covid-19 pandemic by the end of the year, the World Health Organisation warned Monday (March 1).

The United States, through the US Embassy in Dhaka and the US Agency for International Development (USAID), has delivered 100 state-of-the-art ventilators to Bangladesh that it had pledged earlier to assist the country's fight against Covid-19.

Ruling Awami League MP Mahbubul Alam Hanif, also the party’s joint general secretary, has tested positive for Covid-19 today.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today directed the authorities concerned to strictly implement the "no mask no service" policy at every government and private offices in the wake of the second wave of Covid-19 in many countries in Europe and in America.

The government has spent an average of Tk15,000 for regular Covid-19 patients and Tk 47,000 for Covid-19 patients in ICU beds, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said today.

In the wake of Covid-19 reemergence in several countries, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina today urged all to follow health guidelines and use face-masks in public places and gatherings -- to prevent the possible second wave of the pandemic in Bangladesh.

Bangladeshi band Aurthohin’s frontman Saidus Salehin Khaled, popularly known as ‘Bassbaba’ Sumon, and his son Ahnaf Salehin Khaled, have tested positive for Covid-19.

Experts have said public health practices in the country needs to be made more mainstream and widely available to improve overall health situation and tackle pandemics such as Covid-19.

Thirty-two people have died from Covid-19 infections in the country during the last 24 hours, according to a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Shyamal Biswas, assistant officer, store of The Daily Star, died today with Covid-19. He was 53.

Forty-seven people have died from Covid-19 in the country during the last 24 hours, reads a release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

The 21st session of the BIMSTEC Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM) comprising foreign secretaries of the member states will be held virtually in Colombo, Sri Lanka on September 2.

Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) starts clinical trials of Favipiravir to test its effectiveness as treatment for Covid-19 patients in the country.

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan today called his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina and discussed various issues related to Covid-19 and flood situation.

Twenty-seven police personnel who recovered from Covid-19 infections in Cumilla have started for Dhaka to donate plasma for treatment of severely ill coronavirus patients.

A virtual court in Dhaka has placed seven officials and employees of Regent Group on a five-day remand each in a case filed overissuing fake Covid-19 test results and charging patients for the test and treatment.