Chittagong Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has been diagnosed with Covid-19, becoming the first incumbent minister in the country to get infected with the novel coronavirus.
Bandarban Civil Surgeon Dr Aung Sui Pru Marma confirmed the matter, adding that the minister will be taken to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) in Dhaka soon.
The minister might have contracted the virus as he had attended several programmes during Eid-ul-Fitr and came to contact with mass people while distributing reliefs and other things.
The civil surgeon added that samples will soon be collected from the minister's family members for testing for infection.
Earlier on Monday, former Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim was tested positive for coronavirus shortly after he was admitted to a private hospital in the capital.
Bangladesh has so far confirmed 63,026 coronavirus cases and 846 deaths.
