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GoI has assured support Bhutan has requested India for help in procuring 1 mn doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine or Covishield that is being manufactured in the Serum Institute of India (SII) to vaccinate the whole Bhutanese population. The Foreign Minister Dr Tandi Dorji said that the Government of India …

Schools in other Dzongkhags hope to open by next week The ministry of education will not postpone the exam dates for school students. Class IX and XI will write their exams on third week of February and by end of February, they will finish it. Class X and XII exams …

The last three Bhutanese girls in Iraq will be coming to Bhutan on 4th January. This will complete the biggest and most audacious rescue of Bhutanese citizens in distress in a foreign land. The problem first cropped up from 2019 and even before when there were petitions, news and requests …

When the COVID-19 outbreak first happened the regular Ministry of Health morning updates and the evening press conferences of the Health Minister came up with four categories of data, each with its own implication and meaning. These were firstly the Close Contact cases who were the close contacts of cases …

With a large number of Community Transmission cases in Thimphu and Paro and cases also found in Punakha, Wangdue, Bumthang, Dagana, Haa, Trongsa there is now an even greater urgency to get the vaccine. Health Minister says Bhutan going for any vaccine available Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo said that …

High percentage of high risk close contacts are testing positive unlike the Phuentsholing outbreak Says source of outbreak could either be from those coming from the south or from those coming via air to Thimphu 72,000 people had left from Thimphu between 7th and 20th December to all 20 Dzongkhags …

The Prime Minister in two addresses to the nation Highlighted the concerns and commands of His Majesty The King over the COVID-19 outbreak and also the National Lockdown. On the first day of the lockdown on 20th December the Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering said, “His Majesty is always …

Of 172 cases on day six 20 cases are from flu clinics, 62 from mass screening and 32 from community surveillance with 58 close contact cases Within the last nine days of the lockdown that first started in Thimphu there has been a total of 172 local transmission cases averaging …

On day 3 of the lockdown on 22nd December the Prime Minister along with an announcement for a National Lockdown also announced mass testing for Thimphu. He said a total of 15,000 to 20,000 people in Thimphu will be tested in a few days and we will have an idea …

The Prime Minister Dasho (Dr) Lotay Tshering announced that the lady (50-year-old) who was identified as suffering from an auto-immune disease and who had come back from Kolkata after treatment had passed away at 3 am on 25th December. Lyonchhen said that the lady had initially tested positive for COVID-19 …