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Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital will resume the referral cases once the situation in the country improves. So far the hospital has not referred any cases outside for treatment during the second lockdown. Medical Superintended of JDWNRH Dr Gosar Pemba said the hospital has not received any severe cases …

The construction sector is one of the main sectors which is hugely impacted by the pandemic in the country. Increase in cost of materials, hike in transportation charges and man power shortages has contributed to difficulty for the contractors. It was learnt that the contractors are finding it difficult to …

A female Desuup Phub Gyem who got into an accident last year while on duty is back in the country last week after undergoing a spine surgery in Delhi, India. Desuup Phub Gyem was critically injured in September last year after a badly parked pick-up truck rolled down and hit …

While the 18 Dzongkhags are in the green zone and back to normal with offices and schools having resumed, Thimphu and Paro have unlocked phase wise into the yellow zone after tests from one household each largely came up negative. This is especially so in Thimphu where mass testing was …

All the schools, Early Childhood Care and Development (ECCD), Non-Formal Education (NFE) and Community Learning Centre (CLC) are scheduled to open in the country as announced by the the Ministry of Education. However, the opening of schools and other centers in Thimphu and Paro will depend on the directives and …

Like any other sector, the judicial system in the country is equally impacted by the pandemic. As the courts in the country could not function during lockdown, many people got stranded both in custody and outside custody. Moreover, adjudications were getting stopped and court hearing kept getting postponed as they …

Even with more than three weeks of lockdown there are still cases from flu clinic or from community screening in Thimphu. Given the fact that they are still getting cases from the community, the question is, from where they have got the virus. It was learnt that though the number …

Nu 302 mn granted since start of the lockdown The Druk Gyalpo’s Relief Kidu received 13,409 applications from the start of the lockdown till date that is from 20th December 2020 until 14th January 2021. Applications had drastically reduced from November, averaging 10 per day in early December. There was …

Though the PHPA-2 requires anywhere between 2500 to 2800 people the project has just above 1,000 people working on the site. The imported workers normally work in a cyclic process where-in they work for about 3 to 4 months on an average or at the maximum stay for no longer …

If the Ministry of Health went by the World Health Organization (WHO) definition of a COVID-19 death, then Bhutan would still be having zero COVID-19 deaths. However, the Health Minister Dasho Dechen Wangmo said that the MoH decided to go with the Center for Diseases Control (CDC) USA and the …