Bangladesh has reported 3,141 new coronavirus cases and 32 more deaths, raising its total caseload to 87,520, including 1,171 fatalities, AP reports.

Nasima Sultana, additional director general of the Health Directorate, said that a junior minister from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s cabinet and a former health minister and close aide to Hasina have both died due to the virus in Dhaka.

Bangladesh’s main state-run hospitals are overwhelmed, with many critical Covid-19 patients being deprived of intensive care beds and ventilators.