“CHT Affairs Minister Bir Bahadur was flown to Dhaka from Bandarban on a Bangladesh Air Force helicopter at 12:40pm. He was admitted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for better treatment,” the Inter Services Public Relations Directorate (ISPR) said on Sunday.
The bodyguard and personal secretary of the Minister were sent to isolation, said Bandarban Civil Surgeon Dr Aung Sui Marma.
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The minister might have contracted the virus as he had attended several programmes during Eid-ul-Fitr and came in contact with mass people while distributing reliefs and other things, he added.
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.
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