On Friday the Health Minister announced that 3 IMTRAT officials had tested positive with the COVID-19 virus as new cases. She mentioned that earlier 16 people from project DANTAK in Phuentsholing tested positive and 2 IMTRAT officials which includes one in Thimphu and one in Phuentsholing had also tested positive. …

Bhutan has 224 COVID-19 cases as of Monday  and with 84 active cases and 140 having recovered. After the detection of the first case in Phuentsholing on 12th August, which is the index case for the MDP, the ministry had instituted an aggressive contact tracing and through which the ministry …

Ministry also proposes to postpone exams for the above to March 2021 The Ministry of Education (MoE) has proposed that classes IX, X, XI and XII to be reopened when the lockdown is lifted and if the situation is under control. This means that classes Pre-Primary (PP) till VIII will …

A total of 3,673 people registered through 1023 helpline and the the form circulated online for those who came from Phuentsholing from 1st August onwards. Thimphu has the highest number of people registered with 948 followed by Chukha with 367, and Paro with 114. The testing has already been started …

Recently, when explaining why the government was planning to supply alcohol as well during the lockdown along with essential items, the Foreign Minister, Dr Tandi Dorji, said that the JDWNRH has a large number of alcohol withdrawal cases. An alcohol withdrawal case happens when a habitual and heavy drinker is …

The Covid-19 cases in the country as of Monday has reached 155 and with a total of 40 active cases. There are 33 active cases in Phuentsholing isolation ward and out of which two are children, a five-year-old boy and a four-year-old girl, 2 are in Gelephu isolation ward and …

Currently Bhutan has enough testing kits, for now with more than 200,000 in stock and orders worth Nu 600 mn more placed. Similarly, there is enough Personal Protection Equipment (PPEs) for now, that will last for the next 5 to 6 months. Also, the additional quantity for PPEs has been …

With the fourth day of national lockdown the isolation ward in Phuentsholing are managing positive cases without much problem. In the first day of lockdown, three positive cases was reported and in the following day it was 12 positive cases which was a huge number. The Covid centre in Phuentsholing …

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 …

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 …