COVID-19

South American football chief Alejandro Dominguez on Wednesday asked FIFA president Gianni Infantino to hold discussions on setting up a global fund to help football clubs during the coronavirus pandemic. CONMEBOL president Dominguez...

A shipment managed by UNICEF of approximately 90 tons of vital supplies arrived in Caracas. The shipment includes Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) kits for health workers on the frontline in the battle against...

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a respiratory tract infection caused by a newly emergent coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, that was first recognized in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. Almost every country of the world has...

The International Monetary Fund should include transparency and anti-corruption measures in coronavirus-related emergency relief programs to ensure that the billions of dollars it is disbursing to dozens of countries help the most vulnerable,...

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) today allocated $44 million in technical assistance resources to support its developing member countries in their response to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The funds will be...

A quick look at the current list of the COVID-19 infected cases tells us that they are distributed across Bangladesh. As disease progression and the resulting countrywide lockdown continue, it is critical for...

Ellen DeGeneres, one of America’s most popular TV personalities, faced a barrage of criticism on Wednesday after comparing her self-isolation in a multimillion-dollar mansion to being in prison. DeGeneres, whose daily television talk...

Bangladesh has urged China to send an expert medical team comprising doctors, nurses and technicians to handle and treat COVID-19 patients here as well as provide training to Bangladeshi medical professionals. The request...

The head of the European Research Council has resigned, the EU confirmed on Wednesday, reportedly in protest at the bloc’s handling of its coronavirus response. Mauro Ferrari, who only took over as president...

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is rolling out US$ 1.5m emergency food support for 50,000 extremely urban poor families of Bangladesh to ameliorate some of their immediate hardships and counter potentially devastating...