The National COVID-19 Taskforce will decide on the need for mass screening for coronavirus in Thimphu. Following the community outbreak in the capital yesterday, 14 new cases of Coronavirus were detected today.
11 cases were in a cluster community near the Centenary Farmers’ Market where the first case originated. The health workers carried out a community screening at the location yesterday following the outbreak.
Two cases were detected in the immediate contacts of the first case. The first case of cluster outbreak was confirmed in a 25-year-old woman yesterday morning.
And one case was detected in a Bhutanese quarantined in Thimphu upon returning from India on 18th December.
Following the outbreak in the capital, the health workers tested swab samples of 800 contacts and 900 individuals in the community yesterday. Seven primary contacts tested positive yesterday. The health ministry is yet to establish the source of the outbreak.
Phub Gyem
