Deceased state minister Abdullah tests COVID-19 positive

State minister for religious affairs Sheikh M Abdullah, who died at Combined Military Hospital, Dhaka on Saturday night, was tested for COVID-19 positive.

He was 75.

State minister for shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury confirmed New Age Abdullah was tested COVID-19 positive.

Earlier on Saturday night, Abdullah’s assistant personal secretary Sheikh Nazmul Haq Saikat said that the state minister died at about 11:45pm from a cardiac arrest.

The technocrat state-minister Abdullah was admitted to the hospital with some health complications including high diabetic about 10:30pm.

News Courtesy: www.newagebd.net