Home Minister Asaduzzman Khan and senior secretary to the public security division of the ministry Mostafa Kamal Uddin tested positive for coronavirus.
Asaduzzaman and Mostafa Kamal are in isolation at their residences in the city.
Home Ministry’s Public Relations Officer Sharif Mahmud, said: “Their samples were given to International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh for Covid-19 test. The test results of both of them came back positive.”
With Asaduzzaman, at least eight ministers have now been infected by the coronavirus.