This paper aims to assess food insecurity during the Covid-19 pandemic and coping strategies of the extreme poor in Bangladesh. Food security was measured in terms of shortage of food during the week before survey, with 532 households sampled from 9 districts. Results show that nearly 91% of the households faced a medium to severe level of food insecurity during the pandemic: about 37% of the households suffered severe food-insecurity, while roughly 52% suffered moderate food insecurity. To cope, nearly three-fourths of the food secure households used regular income, food-stock, and savings to access food. The severely food-insecure households adopted mostly borrowing strategies (80% of the households). The Logit model-based results show that the odds ratios of severe food insecurity were over 1, suggesting a deterioration of food insecurity for households which were led by females, had a special needs member, had a higher number of family members, suffered from previous shocks, and had previous loans.