The State Minister for Water Resources, Zahid Faruk, has been infected with novel coronavirus.
He is now undergoing treatment at Combined Military Hospital (CMH), the ministry PRO Md Asif Ahmed told Jago News on Thursday.
"A few days ago, he (Zahid Faruk) took a test for coronavirus and results came positive," Asif said.
"He had been maintained isolation at home but yesterday got admitted at CMH," Asif also said, adding that the state minister is physically doing well.
Earlier, Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque and Chattogram Hill Tracts Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur Ushwe Sing caught the deadly virus and later made recovery.