During a panel discussion yesterday, the Foreign Minister Lyonpo Tandi Dorji clarified that there has been primary focus in Thimphu and Phuentsholing since the lockdown due to reasons like extensive population, goods having to be imported from the border areas and not having independent consumption sources for vegetables among others. …

JDWNRH will make sure that all the patients who are under medication will get their medicines on time. The hospital is delivering medicines to all patients including the chronic patients. The hospital vehicles will leave for delivery at around 2 pm and drop all the medicines at the doorstop of …

Bhutan went into a lockdown on the morning of 11th August as a 27-year-old woman who had returned from Kuwait and spent a month in quarantine in Paro testing negative 5 times on the RT-PCR finally tested positive when she reached Sershong Gewog after spending time in Thimphu and Gelephu …

The Outpatient Department in Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital will be closed until further notice. However, people are requested to call toll free number 112 for emergency cases and other toll free number 2121 and 6060 for enquiries. When the government announced national lockdown on August 11, people were …

Construction will not be allowed in the course of lockdown said Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering. “We have stopped construction work. Some people are saying that their work is within their boundaries and they even don’t have to step outside. We are aware of it but it is not same …

The Prime Minister said the first national lockdown would hugely affect the budget and the five-year plan. He said that in terms of the budget the impact would not be that much directly but the inability to implement would also impact the budget and not being able to spend in …

With residents complaining that the contact lines for essential items remained mostly busy, Thimphu Thromde has a new toll free number 1009, however people were confused as 8 stock centers in Thimphu have stopped taking orders for grocery and vegetables leading to the helpine again becoming busy.  Making matters worse, …

Prime Minister (Dr) Lotay Tshering announced any person needing immediate medical care or a pregnant mother near her term will be allowed to go to hospital driving their own vehicle, if they do not want to wait for the hospital vehicle or ambulance or if the case is emergency. Pregnant …

Final decision to be taken by Central Task Force led by PM The reopening of schools for class VII-IX and XI may not happen for this academic year if there are an increasing number of local positive cases in the country. While classes X and XII will resume if the …

Royal Bhutan Police (RBP) has registered three cases in connection to lockdown violation so far. With this regard, they have apprehended 6 people, however, they were all sent on surety as the matter was not serious. The three cases were reported from Thimphu, Kamji under Chukha and Dagana. In Thimphu’s …