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Bhutan witnessed an increased burden of Non-Communicable Diseases (NCD) both in terms of morbidity and mortality. As per the Bhutan STEPS Survey, the rise of NCDs has been driven primarily by four major risk factors: tobacco use, harmful use of alcohol, physical inactivity and unhealthy diets. Reducing these modifiable risk …

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected the lives across the world and impacted the wellbeing of children and families. Particularly worrying is the unprecedented disruption of learning for all children, including preschool children, due to school and Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD) centers closure. In Bhutan, ECCD centers have been …

Of the 304 total national cases as of Friday IMTART had 30 cases while DANTAK had 51 cases. Most of these cases have been local transmission among them. A silver lining is that the spread has been mainly among them due to the contained nature of their campuses but the …

The Tshogpa of Centenary Farmers Market (CFM) Dendup, said there are no proper facilities in the zones and the two Multi Level Car Parkings where the vendors can operate their business. He said that the vendors are not willing to move to the MLCPs where they are kept on the …

Aim is to engage 15,000 Bhutanese workers in the next few years As of 1 October, 3,155 people have registered online with the Ministry of Labor for Build Bhutan Project (BBP) since their launch. From the total registered people, they were able to place 271 people under direct engagement. An …

Agriculture Minister Yeshey Penjor said that when the lockdown happened, for the first two to three days there was a problem since the Ministry supplied the vegetables and thromde distributed it but it didn’t go well since there was shortage of manpower and Thromde was receiving more than 3,000 calls …

As of Monday, Bhutan has 261 confirmed cases reported, out of which 177 are male and 84 female. 69 are active cases, out of which 192 have recovered. On Monday two quarantined women who returned from the middle east tested positive. On Sunday one customs officer in Phuentsholing in quarantine …

The Drug Regulatory Authority (DRA) will check on the face masks sold in the market and if any shops are found to sell low quality surgical masks that does not meet up to the health standards then DRA will seize their face masks. During the COVID-19 press brief, Health Minister …

The understanding so far has been that only the southern border areas are high risk zones but the Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said it covers the other areas adjacent to the border too. He said all the inhabitants adjacent to the international boundary will be considered high risk and …

In total, Bhutan has 245 positive cases of which 164 are male while 81 are female. Of the total cases, 161 have recovered. When it comes to testing, they have tested 117,494 so far and for now, the ministry is carrying out a mass testing for all the three armed …