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With the demand for meat and dairy products soaring by the day, over 13 meat shops were allowed to open in Thimphu, starting yesterday. With this, Bhutan Livestock Development Corporation, BLDC, will replenish the stocks to the retailor shops, as and when required.

With the activation of the zoning system, residents of Monggar town started coming out of their homes to buy essentials. Not even a single person coming out in the last four days due to complete lockdown, the town looked like a ghost town.

With some 1500 trucks ferrying boulders, mines, and minerals, the boulder export business in Phuntsholing is being carried-out hassle-free, even amidst the lockdown. The containment zone at Amochhu which started last week is facilitating the export.

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Considering the ever-increasing cases of community transmission of the coronavirus, especially in the capital, the situation during the second nationwide lockdown is comparatively more serious than the first. However, looking at the way some residents in Thimphu respond, experiences during the first nationwide lockdown truly must have been a good school.

With increasing cases of community transmission in Paro, people will be allowed to travel out of the district, only upon testing negative on the RT-PCR test. However, vehicles transporting essentials, dialysis, chemo, and emergency patients will be allowed, upon testing negative on the rapid antigen test.

With the widening and blacktopping of the Trashi Yangtse primary national highway almost disorganized, the progress has upset the residents and commuters. While some stretches are widened and blacktopped, some still remain untouched.

Just about 200 meters stretch left to complete, the road widening works between the View point and the Trongsa town will surpass the deadline of March 2021. The Department of Road in Trongsa is also allowing the contractor to continue the works amidst the lockdown. This will help the contractor expedite the remaining works.

With the activation of the zoning system, residents of Thimphu started coming out of their homes after three days of the lockdown, to buy essentials. And soon after, Thimphu Thromde had a series of grievances to listen to. Although the morning was smooth, complaints about insufficient stocks, limited shops, and time to shop were the pertinent issues people raised.

A student in one of the schools in Haa was detected with COVID-19, today. The Dzongkhag COVID-19 Task Force declared Haa town, Betso, and Tsiloongkha villages under Uesu Gewog Red Zone.