BHUTAN TODAY The New Perspective
To ensure safe learning and teaching environment with the opening of the schools across the country, schools adopt innovative and strict COVID-19 protocols. Besides schools following the COVID-19 protocols like using mask, washing hands and maintaining social distancing, each schools have their own innovative and strict strategies to ensure safe learning and teaching environment for the students and the teachers. …
Read More »Tag Archives: COVID-19
Major toss in quarantine protocols
… Severity and hospitalization, are manageable Phurpa Wangmo From April 4, the government will ease the ‘strictest quarantine protocols’, the quarantine protocols that always exceeded the World Health Organization’s recommended quarantine period. The change has been brought about for both domestic, and international travelers. Many of the changes have come after observing the protocols for close to two years. The …
Read More »34 tourists to arrive in April
… The first large group to arrive in the country Puran Gurung On April 2, a group of 34 tourists will arrive in the country. This will be the first large group of tourists visiting the country after the lone 71-year-old Frances H Bak visited the country in August 2021. In this group of tourists, they are mostly American, and …
Read More »His Majesty’s loud and clear message, ‘save lives’: PM
… Prime Minister retraces His Majesty’s directions on His Majesty’s Birth Anniversary Puran Gurung Underscoring the messages from His Majesty The King’s Royal Tour in the South and areas most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering conveyed that His Majesty’s loud and clear message was to ‘save lives’ during the pandemic. At all times, His Majesty …
Read More »34-year-old woman succumbs to COVID-19, Bhutan records fourth death
Puran Gurung In the early hours of January 28, a 34-year-old woman hospitalized at the Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital (JDWNRH) for COVID-19 passed away. This is the fourth death in the country so far with over 4,430 individuals contracting the virus since the detection of the virus since March 5, 2020 in the country. According to the Ministry …
Read More »Country’s strict quarantine measure to keep virus at bay
Citing the government’s stand on strict quarantine measures, any variant that may come as long as the incubation period doesn’t vary, no virus can affect the country, says the Prime Minister. This is regarding the increasing cases of Omicron, a variant of concern declared by the World Health Organization and the concerns on preparedness for the new variant Omicron if …
Read More »