Bangladesh has taken all necessary measures to prevent coronavirus from entering the country, Health Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday. “The situation at present is nothing to panic about. Even if it [the virus] comes, we’re fully prepared,” he said at a seminar, organized by Bangladesh Medical Association, at the capital’s Segunbagicha. He also said a cabinet meeting earlier in the day decided that the government would not send any more chartered flights to China to bring home

A Dhaka court today placed contractor SM Golam Kibria Shamim and expelled Jubo League leader Khaled Mahmud Bhuiyan on a seven-day remand each in two separate corruption cases. Dhaka Senior Special Judge (in-charge) Md Al Mamun passed the order after investigation officers of Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) produced them before the court with a 10-day remand prayer for each of them. The court also rejected bail petitions filed by them. On October 21, Shamim and his mother were sued by t

Dengue has taken a turn for the worse in bangladesh since May 1 as a survey has found high presence of the vector of the disease, Aedes mosquito, in the capital. According to the Directorate General of Health Services, 258 people were hospitalised with dengue in bangladesh this year and two of them died but 148 of them were hospitalised in 33 days since May 1. Its director for communicable diseases taneya said that the situation was ‘alarming’. ‘The situation has not improved