Health guidelines issued by the authorities to prevent a resurgence of Covid infections are being widely disregarded across the country despite fears that the Covid situation may take a serious turn again.
In response to rising concerns over Covid-19 and dengue outbreaks, the government has issued a set of urgent directives to all educational institutions across the country.
As Covid-19 infections has begun to rise once again in Bangladesh, the prices of face masks has doubled in the wholesale market, driven by opportunistic traders seeking to cash in on its growing demand...
At least two patients, both women, died of Coronavirus and 15 others were infected in the past 24 hours till Friday 8:00am in the country.
Ten new Covid cases were reported in Bangladesh in the past 24 hours till Tuesday evening, according to the Directorate General of Health Services.
Amid rise of Covid-19 cases in Bangladesh, the Directorate General of Health Services has decided to start testing at different public hospitals across the country in a limited scale.
The Directorate General of Health Services on Wednesday issued an 11-point directive, including the avoidance of public gatherings, for people amid a rise in infections caused by new omicron sub-variants of the Covid virus in Bangladesh and a surge in Covid infections in neighbouring India...
Voicing deep concerns over the emergence of a new sub-variant of COVID-19, director general of the Directorate General of Health Services, Abu Jafor on Wednesday urged all to avoid all forms of public gatherings...
Public health experts have warned that new Covid omicron sub-variants such as XFG and NB 1.8.1 may trigger a fresh wave of infections in Bangladesh.
Bangladesh reported 13 more Covid-19 cases out of 101 in the past 24 hours till Tuesday morning.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Monday raised concerns over the government鈥檚 preparedness in tackling a potential new wave of coronavirus, as new sub-variants of the virus keeps spreading in neighbouring countries, including India...
The Directorate General of Health Services has advised Bangladeshi citizens to refrain from traveling to India and other neighbouring countries experiencing a surge in Covid-19 cases unless absolutely necessary...
Bangladesh reported five more Covid-19 cases in 24 hours till Monday morning...
The Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited has urged passengers using the capital鈥檚 metro rail service to wear masks as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19...
Authorities have intensified the screening of people returning from India through Benapole land port in a bid to prevent the spread of a new variant of Covid-19...
Bangladesh reported three more COVID-19 cases in 24 hours till Sunday morning...
The Ministry of Railways on Sunday urged passengers to wear masks as deadly COVID-19 cases are rising again...
The government on Friday urged all to wear mask in crowded areas in the backdrop of prevalence of Covid-19 in some areas in Bangladesh...
Bangladesh reported one more Covid-linked death and three fresh cases in 24 hours till Thursday morning...
Nearly 25,000 out-of-school and learning-lagged children who had dropped out during the Covid-19 pandemic have returned to mainstream primary education through BRAC鈥檚 Returning to Learning project, which provided accelerated learning in 1,005 one-room schools...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday filed a case against 16 people, including Saad Musa Group proprietor Mohammad Mohsin and former National Bank Limited managing director Chowdhury Moshtaq Ahmed, on charges of embezzling Tk聽404 crore from the government-declared Covid stimulus package and laundering the fund...
Years of negotiations culminated early Wednesday with countries agreeing the text of a landmark accord on how to tackle future pandemics, aimed at avoiding the mistakes made during the Covid-19 crisis...
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday decided to launch an inquiry into a syndicate led by Salman F Rahman, vice-chairman of Beximco Pharmaceuticals, over allegations of embezzling Tk聽22,000 crore from the procurement process of COVID vaccines.
China said Monday it was 鈥榚xtremely unlikely鈥� Covid-19 came from a laboratory, after the US Central Intelligence Agency said it believed the virus had more likely come from a lab rather than natural transmission.
The Central Intelligence Agency has shifted its official stance on the origin of Covid-19, saying Saturday that the virus was 鈥榤ore likely鈥� leaked from a Chinese lab than transmitted by animals....
IN THE midst of recovery from the devastating effects of the Covid pandemic, whispers of a potential new viral threat have surfaced, capturing the attention of global health experts and citizens alike. Human metapneumovirus, a respiratory pathogen that has largely flown under the radar, is now being dubbed the potential 鈥楥ovid 2.0.鈥� But is this...
The case is part of a major anti-graft drive that has led to the resignation of a president and two deputy prime ministers in a country where political changes are usually carefully orchestrated...
UK families of some 2,40,000 people who died from Covid-19 have hung festive lights on a London wall, a symbol of love, anger and pain ahead of another Christmas overshadowed by loss.
A group of frontline workers employed during the Covid-19 crisis are continuing their protest outside the Directorate General of Health Services in Dhaka demanding an extension of their employment contracts beyond December.
Anwar Hossain, 55, has had an unbearable life since 2020, when he lost his 18-year-old daughter to Covid 19...