Smoking causes lung cancer and respiratory disease like Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), and chewing tobacco leads to oral cancer. These are two main disease caused by smoking. As per WHO, in Bhutan, tobacco kills an estimated 221 people each year which is around 5.7 percent of all deaths. A …

Despite the absence of community transmission in the last couple of weeks, Phuentsholing is not taking it easy. The Chairperson of Southern COVID-19 Task Force (SC19TF) said it would be impossible for SC19TF and relevant agencies alone to monitor public adherence to health safety protocols. Each and every member of …

More than 59,000 children, which accounts for 78.6 percent of the eligible children in the 12 to 17-years category, have been vaccinated with Pfizer and Moderna vaccines. There are around 20,000 children who have not received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine as yet. Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo the …

The reopening of schools for classes PP to III in Phuentsholing will purely depend on the COVID-19 pandemic situation. In the meantime, students will continue their studies through remote learning. The Education Minister Jai Bir Rai said children are more susceptible to the new COVID-19 variants, therefore, he requested the …

The Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo said that as of 19th August around 3,000 Bhutanese are yet to get vaccinated with the first dose. She said initially there were a total of 25,000 who had not been vaccinated at all, but around 22,000 of them came for their first dose …

Given the urgency, the country will have temporary quarantine centers with a total capacity of 1,000 beds which are currently under construction and will be completed by the end of September 2021. There is a 200 bedded quarantine center in Samtse which expected to be completed by the end of …

Although more than 100 government Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centers have been established in 2019-2020, across the 20 dzongkhags, however, ECCDs are non-operational due to the lack of facilitators. The Ministry of Education (MoE) is awaiting approval for recruitment of facilitators from RCSC, and the sooner the approval …

There are 890 students in classes IX to XII, with 84 teachers, from Phuentsholing, who will be leaving to their new school on 15th and 16th August to continue their second term of the 2021 academic year, in Phaduna, Punakha. The Education Minister Jai Bir Rai said the plan for …

11 new positive cases were detected on Friday from the Medical Supply and Distribution Depot (MSDD) which was functioning in a self-containment mode. Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo said they were not in a containment mode and there was a miscommunication. She said they were working in MSDD and during …

Residents in Phuentsholing can finally look forward to some degree of normalcy as the lockdown restrictions are cautiously lifted. This is being done to mitigate the risk of COVID-19 transmission. Mega Zone I, extending from Doti Khola towards Samtse side, and Mega Zone II, the area from Kharbandi gate to …