During the Friday Press briefing, the Health Minister Dechen Wangmo said that Bhutan like many other nations has been assured of vaccines for at least 20% of the population should the final trials for the vaccines get approved. She said that The Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunisation (GAVI) which …

So far the country has reported 224 cases with 3 testing positive from Haa, on Friday morning and 27 from DANTAK in Phuentsholing. There are 84 are active cases. As of now, all the active cases are doing well with no complications. Health Minister Dechen Wangmo said to reduce the …

People should wear mask and maintain social distancing or there will be more cases says Health Minister Health Minister Dechen Wangmo during the press briefing said that the Ministry will be testing people along the main national highways given the risk of interaction with COVID-19 carriers. “We are done with …

The health minister at the press briefing on friday said that about 340 people in Phuentsholing alone are identified to be sick and vulnerable to the virus. She said that most of them wished to stay back with their families instead of being moved to another facility and they agreed …

Meat shortage in the country began since the outbreak of Covid-19. To contain the spread of the virus, the government banned the import of meat except for frozen and packaged meats. Since there is a limited meat industry in the country the supply was limited and the meat shops faced …

Generation of Organic Waste increases amid Lockdown According to the founder of Greener Way, Karma Yonten, there is a 20 percent increase in the generation of organic waste in the lockdown. “Generation of organic waste has increased in the course of lockdown since many people are staying home and families …

On Friday the Health Minister announced that 3 IMTRAT officials had tested positive with the COVID-19 virus as new cases. She mentioned that earlier 16 people from project DANTAK in Phuentsholing tested positive and 2 IMTRAT officials which includes one in Thimphu and one in Phuentsholing had also tested positive. …

Bhutan has 224 COVID-19 cases as of Monday  and with 84 active cases and 140 having recovered. After the detection of the first case in Phuentsholing on 12th August, which is the index case for the MDP, the ministry had instituted an aggressive contact tracing and through which the ministry …

Since the lockdown, Bhutan has received two repatriation flights, one flight from Singapore on 22 August and other from Kolkata on 24 August. There were 35 Bhutanese who came in from Kolkata and they are all patients who were returning after completing their treatment. A flight from Singapore had more …

The last three weeks has seen a ballooning of community transmission cases in Bhutan starting from some local transmission in the Mini Dry Port in Phuentsholing and then continuing with community transmission being discovered in Phuentsholing. The Ministry of Health’s technical experts may take time to come up with an …