Home Minister, secretary test positive for coronavirus
Staff Reporter Published: 15 November 2020, 06:29 PM
| Updated: 15 November 2020, 06:30 PM
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.
