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People stranded in Thimphu and Paro will be able to travel back to their homes starting tomorrow. Since the lockdown was enforced, only people with emergency cases were allowed to travel.

To facilitate easy market access for perishable farm produce during the lockdown, the Dorokha Dungkhag in Samtse helped reach 350 cartoons of eggs and other dairy products to Phuentshogling and Haa in the past two days.

Starting tomorrow, the first phase of the lockdown relaxation will allow the movement of people and utility vehicles in zones of all the districts, except for Thimphu and Paro, that have not reported any cases of COVID-19 so far. However, it will be only within the district. 

The Gelegphu police fished out bodies of a couple from a reservoir tank of a car wash in one of the automobile workshops in the Industrial Service Center at Tashiling Demkhong under Gelegphu Thromde, recently. The incident reportedly happened on the night of 31st December.

As Bhutan keeps in constant touch with vaccine manufacturing countries around the world, her hope for Oxford’s AstraZeneca vaccine is quite high and assuring. Prime Minister Dr Lotay Tshering said Bhutan has discussed in length, regarding the vaccine and readied all documents with the Serum Institute in India. 

For average people, lockdown is all about quality time with family, reading, watching movies and writing, but not for 23-year-old Sangay Dorji. Confined within the four walls of his home, innovation took the reins of his life during the lockdown. The young resident of Thimphu has managed to build a drone.

Following the extensive use of names of the places such as Sharpa and Baangdey in Paro amid COVID-19 stories by BBS, a public outcry poured in, regarding the uniformity and correctness of spelling and pronunciation. However, speaking to the relevant agencies, BBS learned that the issue is everywhere and that there is no standard to it.

Bhutan Kuen-Nyam Party (BKP) holds the government responsible for failing to prevent the community transmission of the COVID-19 in the country and lacking a Roll-out Plan for Mass Vaccination. The party issued the Press Release on 3rd January 2021

Thimphu police registered a case against an elderly man after a private video of him and a young woman went viral on social media...

Reportedly endangering the health of people and animals nearby and damaging the forest, the Haa waste disposal site at Anakha in Uesu Gewog continues to be a nuisance. The 10 years capacity of the landfill was over in 2016, but waste disposal at the site seems to find no end.