Completing a weeklong home-quarantine, Lhuentse Dzongkhag COVID-19 Taskforce sent home 55 people who were in the district before the lockdown.
Of them, 52 were on a pilgrimage to Rinchen Bumpa Nye in Kurtoed Gewog. The pilgrims, in four different groups, had travelled from Thimphu, Haa, and Paro. While one group had travelled after 11th December, others had travelled between 17th and 19th December.
Likewise, the other three are officials who were on tour in the district for an SNV project. All of them tested negative, on both the rapid-antigen and RT-PCR tests.
They were tested after Prime Minister Dasho Dr Lotay Tshering during his address to the nation asked people who had travelled from Thimphu after the 7th December to get tested for possible infection.
After the government imposed a ban on international tourism in the wake of COVID-19, the Rinchen Bumpa Nye and Singye Dzong under Khoma Gewog became the most visited sites among domestic tourists.
Meanwhile, as of yesterday, the district hospital conducted the rapid antigen test on 799 people and the RT-PCR test on 319 people. All of them tested negative.
Sonam Tshering
