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  Water crisis multiplies plights of coastal people

  Manzur H Maswood, back from Khulna | Updated at 11:26pm on March 31, 2020

  After her marriage in 2000, Minoti Sarkar moved to Chalna, Dacope, to live with her husband, a goldsmith by profession. The couple has now two...

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  Six die with coronavirus symptoms, no new case reported in Bangladesh

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:09pm on March 29, 2020

  At least six more people died with symptoms similar to that of COVID-19  — one in Khulna, two in Barishal, one in Rajshahi, one in...

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  IEDCR struggles as queue of test seekers grows in Bangladesh

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 11:05pm on March 28, 2020

  The government’s top officials including the health minister assured people time and again that the testing facilities for COVID-19 is going to be decentralised with...

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  Coronavirus fatality rate highest in Bangladesh

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:24am on March 28, 2020

  The government statistics showed that the death rate from novel coronavirus infection stood at 10.41 per cent as of Friday, the highest fatality rate compared...

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  Community transmission of coronavirus found in Bangladesh: IEDCR

  Manzur H Maswood and Iqbal Mahmud | Updated at 12:30pm on March 25, 2020

  Bangladesh on Wednesday confirmed one more death from COVID-19, taking the death toll from the novel coronavirus to five. The number of infected patients remained...

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  Another coronavirus infection patient dies in Bangladesh

  Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 03:46pm on March 24, 2020

  Another woman died of COVID-19 in Bangladesh, taking the death toll from the disease to four in the country, with no link of the infection...

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  One more dies of COVID-19, six more infected in Bangladesh

  Manzur H Maswood and Iqbal Mahmud | Updated at 12:19am on March 24, 2020

  One more died of COVID-19 and six new novel coronavirus cases were detected in Bangladesh on Monday, raising the death toll to three and number...

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  Coronavirus suspect dies, 3 more infected in Bangladesh

  Manzur H Maswood and Iqbal Mahmud with Zaman Monir in Sylhet | Updated at 04:24pm on March 22, 2020

  An elderly woman died in Sylhet with coronavirus symptoms while three more people were tested positive for the virus on Sunday. On the day, the...

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  Mitford unable to give doctors masks

  Manzur H Maswood  | Updated at 05:36pm on March 21, 2020

  Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital authorities in a notice on Saturday expressed their inability to provide the hospital doctors and other staff with...

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  Bangladesh puts area in capital on lockdown after second coronavirus death

  Manzur H Maswood and Iqbal Mahmud | Updated at 02:42pm on March 21, 2020

  The authorities on Saturday locked down the Tolarbagh neighbourhood of Mirpur Darussalam in the capital hours after the second death from COVID-19 was confirmed from...