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Bhutan Narcotic Control Authority (BNCA) is facilitating Nicotine Replacement Therapy (NRT) to 133 clients during the second lockdown. Of 133 clients, 27 are new clients who called BNCA during the lockdown to avail the service while the rest are follow-up clients. BNCA has a routine delivery and they are reaching …

Despite the lockdown in Thimphu and Paro dzongkhag, the people are allowed to carry out their farming activities except for the people in red clusters who are restricted. Paro Dzongda Tenzin Thinley said that the farming activities within the peripheral areas are allowed while farming activities in the red clusters …

So far Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) has received 16 males and 6 females with alcohol withdrawal syndrome since the second national lockdown. The cases received are almost the same as in the first lockdown. This is even though alcohol is available in the respective zones and people …

Dzongkhag heads from four southern Dzongkhags along the border shared that people are very cooperative with the implementation of unlocking phase one. They have shared how careful people are in handling the situation now. Chukha, Sarpang, Samdrupjongkhar and Samtse Dzongkhags have shared their do’ and don’ts of unlocking phase one …

Located in a corner of eastern Bhutan, people in Trashiyangtse dzongkhag did not know much about the coronavirus pandemic. When the first national lockdown was imposed on August 11, 2020, it was a surprise. People however, did not face any major difficulties due to the lockdown. The Dzongkhag has handled …

Ministry of Health (MoH) is appealing to the general public to stop harassing the COVID-19 patients and their families. The nature of the disease is such that it is highly contagious and spreads without one’s knowledge.  Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering said that positive patients are getting harassed as …

All the southern Dzongkhags, Samtse, Phuentsholing, Samdrupjongkhar and Sarpang have implemented zoning system with sufficient stock of vegetables and essential items. Everything has been put in place with what they have learnt from the first national lockdown. All the four Dzongkhags despite being identified as red zones, shared that they …

The primary students from classes PP to VI in schools under Phuentsholing Thromde will continue their education as normal, and not in a self-containment mode as decided earlier, for the 2021 academic year. The students are to maintain heightened health protocol for the safety of the students and teachers while …

The National Assembly adopted the Lhengye Zhungtshog Bill of Bhutan 2020 with 42 Yes, 2 No and 2 Abstaining out of 46 Members present and voting.   The House deliberated on Chapters regarding powers, functions and responsibilities, privileges and immunities, code of conduct, offences and penalties and dissolution of the Lhengye Zhungtshog. The Human Rights and Foreign …

The Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament noted that a number of observations pointed in its report were recurrent lapses reflected across different agencies, year after year. The irregularities occurred not because of a lack of rules or procedures but failure on the part of implementing agencies to comply. The …