Pandemics like COVID-19 come in a century or so and make lasting impacts on the world. From COVID-19, we have experienced new dimensions and adopted innovations and let our life receive many adjustments. Our daily life, economy, education, health and social life all these regular domains have been affected. To combat future pandemics, these experiences and learnings from COVID-19 will be valuable. That is why, elaborate documentation of this pandemic is vital for all stakeholders.

Daffodil International University Press (DIUP) has taken a grand initiative to preserve the facts, views and analyses in this compilation titled as 'COVID 19 and Bangladesh: A Living Document'. This will help store our thoughts and responses to COVID-19 in an easily accessible way and will be useful, handy and over all, a guide for reference to many researchers and policymakers in the future.

All the articles (except the research articles) in this compilation have been collected from reputed national newspapers. For commentaries and analyses, we have taken permissions of the writers. For news reports and photographs, we have mentioned the date and source of the contents. This is a non-profit initiative. The sole purpose is compilation of important information. The rights of each content are reserved to the respective newspaper. individual contributor and newspaper.