18 more cases involving 30 suspects is yet to be charge sheeted Royal Bhutan Police (RBP), Department of Law and Order (DLO), Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), and Department of Immigration (DoI) collaborated to rescue 163 Bhutanese women, from 21 years to 50 years of age, in 7 batches, from …

Like any other organization, the pandemic has impacted the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) with case investigations and in many areas of their mandates, responsibilities and functions. Given the protocols, they were not able to summon the accused for interrogations whereby they have many cases waiting for the pandemic to end.  ACC …

The conduct of the orientation program for the elected Local Government (LG) Leaders (Gups, Mangmis and Tshogpas) is impacted by the pandemic, whereby the newly elected leaders (who are not incumbent candidates), in particular, are facing issues in handling their roles as they do not know their exact roles and …

There are reports of maximum complaints from the Quarantine Facilities (QF) with regard to unhygienic food and poor infrastructure. People complain Meanwhile, Kezang Dema who stayed in one of the hotels in Thimphu shared, “Government is paying a lot, and I am sure the hoteliers whose hotels are being used …

With the official approval from the Cabinet in the end of the September 2021, the Ministry of Labour and Human Resources (MoLHR) has resumed the Overseas Employment Scheme, which was put at halt after the first detection of COVID-19 case in the country in March 2020. The scheme was initially …

Tsirang Dzongkhag has 45 active cases, as of now, since the outbreak and no frontliners got infected so far. It was learnt that so far no health complications were reported from the COVID-19 positive patients. Few symptomatic patients are managed at the isolation centre by the health professionals and the …

Samtse has more than 200 active COVID-19 cases since 18 January to today. Of the total active cases, 23 are frontliners. There are 17 positive patients with comorbidity who have been referred to the Phuentsholing COVID-19 hospital. However, no patients were referred to other districts due to lack of space …

The Construction Association of Bhutan (CAB) on behalf of the construction firms in the country has made an appeal to the government to work under containment saying they have no other choice. Though the government has supported the contractors in availing foreign workers to continue their works at site, the …

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, …

With an increase in number of COVID-19 cases in Phuentsholing, they are in acute shortage of Quarantine Facilities (QF) and Isolation Facilities (IF). As of 3 February 2022, they have reported 2,233 cumulative positive cases. Phuentsholing has more than 400 active cases. They have around 1,000 people in QF for …