DEMOCRACY IN ACTION

The Prime Minister on 28th January evening addressed the nation through the PMO official Facebook page that the mandatory quarantine for those traveling from high risk to low risk areas for now will be continued as it is. As for those coming in from the bordering towns they will have …

While  most public service deliveries are made available online, some key agencies faced challenges during the lockdown to reach out their services to the public. An official from Ministry of Home and Culture Affair said that during lockdown, they had issues in providing census and immigration service delivery as the …

The Engineer of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests, Khandu Tshering, said the construction of irrigation canals in the country got delayed due to the second lockdown. He said that the Ministry has been carrying out the plan programs but they could not carry out the survey due to the …

Build Bhutan Project (BBP) was launched in June last year but the engagement and registration of the applicants could be done only in the month of August. Few days after the deployment of the applicants in the field, the first lockdown took place with which they failed to facilitate further …

The Thimphu Thromde allowed 384 shops to open from 13th and 14th January (2nd Phase of Grocery Shops Opening). The Thromde clarified the intent as to provide fair opportunity to those shops which had been closed during the previous 20 days of lockdown; however, the shops in the new list …

A total of 381 cases has been detected since the outbreak in Thimphu. 95 of these cases have recovered. Furthermore, 26.5 percent of the cases detected so far are asymptomatic and the remaining 73.5 percent are symptomatic. Over all the country has reported 842 cases so far. A total of …

The Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo said that they managed to catch the outbreak in the nick of time during the acute phase of transmission which is before a full blown transmission and so it could not spread much. “My main fear in the future is that if an infection …

Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) has admitted 22 COVID-19 patients in the isolation ward as of 8th January. There are 3 children and 3 patients who are above 60 years of age. Currently there are no patient in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) and also no patient on …

Since Thimphu and Paro Dzongkhag has been reporting positive cases every day, the two dzongkhags will not be released from the lockdown anytime soon. There may be certain relaxations.  If the rest of the other dzongkhags do not have any more cases, then they can open up earlier. Clinical Microbiologist …

Ministry of Education (MoE) aims to continue with its plans for uninterrupted education despite the lockdown caused by the community transmission of COVID-19. “Even if the mass transmission happens, education may not be interrupted,” said the Education Minister Jai Bir Rai. He added that the online teaching learning would go …