With an increase in number of COVID-19 positive cases in the country, the pressure on Quarantine Facilities (QF) is increasing each day, especially with having to put all the primary contacts of the positive cases under quarantine. The situation, for now, is manageable as there is no acute shortage. However, …

Despite the repeated reminders by the Office of Consumer Protection (OCP), many shops have been turning a deaf ear by choosing to take advantage of the lockdown to hike the prices of vegetables and grocery items. From the start of lockdown from 16 January till 10th February 2022, 43 business …

We, Bhutanese, take great pride in our ability to survive against great odds, the ravages of history and external challenges – as a nation and as a people. This has also been noted by people, like former Indian Foreign Secretary, Nirupama Rao, who said that the Bhutanese are the best …

Bhutan Medical and Health Council (BMHC) will be investigating the recent death of a 34-year-old woman, Sostika Gurung, in an isolation hotel in Thimphu. An official from BMHC said, for now, they are cross-checking the facts which was reported in the media with the deceased’s husband who is currently in an …

In the early hours of 28 January 2022, a 34-year-old kidney patient, Sostika Gurung, died in room 3002 in Silverpine Boutique hotel after her husband could not get her any timely help from the nurse put on their duty or the ambulance he had called for on 112. The room …

The small town of Nganglam, with around 5,000 people, has had 249 cases of COVID-19, which comes to an average of one in every 20 people in the town testing positive. There is fear, and also anger, among the local residents there who feel such high numbers would not be …

While there has been a lot of recent focus on the Multi-Level Marketing (MLM) Pyramid Scheme selling Enagic Water Ionizers in Bhutan, there is another MLM Pyramid Scheme that is growing in Bhutan in the form of QNet. The modus operandi are very similar, in that people can become members …

6 pregnant mothers who are COVID positive were able to sucessfully deliver their babies. In Thimphu there was one normal delivery and another was a Cesarean Section (CS) baby. The CS had to be conducted due to prolonged labour. It was sucessfully conducted by a team of Specialists and Operation …

Thimphu Lockdown to continue till Wednesday to enable testing The Office of the Prime Minister said that Thimphu will continue with the same arrangement of movement within mega-zone for another three days starting Monday. Any change in the strategy will commence from February 10. This is in view of the …