The Election Commission will hold all postponed elections, including the by-polls to Laxmipur-2 constituency, the first phase of union parishad, and the sixth phase of municipality polls, on June 21.

Students of public and private universities will get Covid-19 vaccines on priority once they are available, Health and Family Welfare Minister Zahid Maleque said yesterday.

Prof Farid-ul-Alam, former head of paediatrics department of Chattogram Maa-O-Shishu Hospital Medical College, died from post-Covid-19 complications at a port city hospital early yesterday.

The Covid-19 pandemic has negatively affected women more than men in terms of monetary and other losses, economists and women rights activists say.

Golam Mortuza Harun, former president of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), Chattogram chapter, died of post Covid-19 complications at a hospital in the port city early yesterday.

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen has sought financial and technical support for Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to produce Covid-19 vaccines and other lifesaving medicines.

Bangladesh yesterday reported 1,358 new Covid-19 cases, while the coronavirus claimed 31 more lives.

The number of Covid-19 cases continued to decline for the second consecutive day yesterday.

Thirty-one-year-old Mushfika Akter, a teacher at a renowned school in the capital, is currently in her eighth month of unplanned pregnancy.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated a “special mango train” on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route via Rajshahi in order to transport mangoes at lower cost.

The number of new Covid cases and deaths from the deadly virus slightly dropped yesterday.

Farmers and traders of Gopalbhog mangoes are incurring huge financial losses because of the ongoing seven-day lockdown in Chapainawabganj.

As Bangladesh battles with the Covid-19 pandemic, its health authorities recorded 28 more deaths and 1,354 cases in 24 hours until yesterday morning.

Shrugging off their responsibilities, the railway authorities have blamed the Covid-19 situation for wholesale revision of the railway projects that are being implemented to improve services.

The Narayanganj district administration reimbursed some of the money a man spent for distributing relief among 100 people as punishment for seeking government food assistance.

The positivity rate of coronavirus tests continued to rise yesterday.

Amid a huge surge in Covid-19 cases in the region, a 10-day complete lockdown has been imposed in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf upazila while a week-long similar restrictions have been announced in five Rohingya camps in the district’s Ukhiya and Teknaf upazilas.

The number of new Covid-19 cases dropped slightly as the health directorate yesterday reported 1,457 cases, including three Indian returnees in Jashore.

Bangladesh will purchase Covid-19 vaccines from China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm).

Bangladesh yesterday witnessed 37 more Covid-19 related deaths in 24 hours ending at 8:00am yesterday.