All the businesses in 20 dzongkhags whose closing time had been curtailed to 7 pm can resume with extension of closing time till 9 pm starting from July 1, 2020 except for those specified under later phases. Earlier the government imposed the 7 pm rule to prevent community transmission. Karaoke, …

Department of School Education (DSE), Ministry of Education (MoE) has received support from Save the Children for buying smartphones for 104 students in Wangsel Institute in Paro and 25 students in Muenselling Institute in Khaling. But due to the current shortage of smartphones in the market, not all the students …

The government has decided to reopen schools, institutes and colleges starting 1st July. The educational institutions were closed for almost three months in the country, and for almost four months in Thimphu, Paro and Punakha. After repeated meetings and discussions with the experts on reopening of educational institutions, the government …

A Bolero vehicle with an assigned driver waits outside a hotel to pick up the health workers bound for the isolation ward in the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH). The health workers reach the hospital and start donning their Personal Protection Equipment (PPE), which takes around 20 to …

Due to the uncertainty over the possibility of a community transmission of COVID-19, the government is still not able to take a decision on reopening schools in the low-risk, medium-risk and high-risk areas. MoE carried out the risk assessment on the reopening of schools and it found that it is …

The Ministry of Health (MoH) makes a risk assessment before allocating roommates in the quarantine facilities. Only the people who face the same level of risks and coming from same area are kept together. Otherwise a person is always kept single. A 30-year-old man, Chimi Dorji, who returned from Kuwait …

There are 59 COVID-19 cases, in Bhutan as of 9 June. The Ministry of Health (MoH) reported that 17 patients have recovered from the disease. There are 42 active cases till date, of which 22 patients are placed in the isolation ward and 20 are in de-isolation. As of 6th …

A total of 21 COVID-19 patients are in the isolation ward in the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) and one patient is kept in isolation in Phuentsholing. There are a total of 20 patients placed in de-isolation ward in Thimphu as of Friday and 17 have recovered of …

Ministry of Health (MoH) has prepared and submitted the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) to the government and Ministry of Education (MoE), if schools and institutions reopen. MoH has also carried out a risk assessment in reopening the schools. Health Minister Dechen Wangmo said the risks would result from contact intensity, …

Country to be divided into low, medium and high risk areas according to which different strategies will be used whenever schools reopen The Ministry of Education (MoE) will follow the instruction and direction from the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) Chaired by the Prime Minister on whether to reopen schools …