Bir Bahadur Ushwe first Bangladesh minister to test COVID-19 positive

Chittagong hill tracts affairs minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing has been infected with coronavirus, Bandarban civil surgeon Aung Sui Marma said.

This is the first time, an incumbent minister of Bangladesh got infected with the novel virus, reports UNB.

Civil surgeon Aung Sui Marma said 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 in contact with the people while distributing relief and other things.

Earlier on Monday, former health and family welfare minister Mohammed 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.