The 2,560 MW Sunkosh project may be the most discussed hydro project in South Asia that is yet to take off. However, the fate of the project will become clear by June 2021 as the Ministry of Economic Affairs has given itself this timeline by when the fate of the …

Of the 7 recovered Bhutanese COVID-19 patients contacted by the paper 5 still suffer from some lingering effects Bhutan has so far got 859 COVID-19 cases of which  841 have recovered so far  with only 17 active cases and 1 death. Despite the encouraging numbers, there is an increasing body …

As the fear of COVID-19 dissipates with some people starting to compare it to the Flu and others coming out to say they will not take the vaccine, The Bhutanese talked to doctors who treated COVID-19 patients to understand what Bhutanese COVID-19 patients go through. Apart from that, there is …

While the 18 Dzongkhags are in the green zone and back to normal with offices and schools having resumed, Thimphu and Paro have unlocked phase wise into the yellow zone after tests from one household each largely came up negative. This is especially so in Thimphu where mass testing was …

On 18th of January the Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering came on air and accepted there have been major lapses and the mistakes have happened from the Paro airport, leading to the second outbreak. He said the government has done its own review, but he did not assign accountability …

With India explicitly committing to meet Bhutan’s vaccine needs for 533,000 eligible people and other arrangements in the pipeline, it is becoming clearer now that the main challenge of getting the COVID-19 vaccine is largely resolved. This now leaves two issues at hand for Bhutan. One is the safety of …

More details have emerged on the various factors contributing to the second outbreak and its spread. Government officials still regard the most probable source of the second outbreak as being the 27th November 2020 flight, mentioned by The Bhutanese last week, where 33 to 34 of the 52 to 55 …

Last weekend, The Bhutanese published a 2,400-word investigative article with the headline “How complacency and lax protocols led to the nation’s second COVID-19 outbreak,” which focused primarily on the systemic lapses that led to the second outbreak.  It examined measures inside the airport, logistics and coordination issues and found lapses from the …

With a large outbreak in Thimphu and Paro it is increasingly becoming clearer by the day that coordination issues and complacency on the ground contributed to the virus spreading in the two Dzongkhags. These twin qualities have long vexed the Bhutanese bureaucracy and system, and this time it reared its …

A big question mark with the massive second COVID-19 outbreak in Thimphu and Paro is on its source and how it spread, despite the various precautions taken. An infectious flight and a driver It all started with a 27th November flight from Kolkata carrying 52 passengers and 6 crew with …