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𝐂𝐎𝐕𝐈𝐃-𝟏𝟗 𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐳𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐤𝐡𝐚𝐠𝐬 About 10 dzongkhags continue to see new COVID-19 cases in the communities and facilities, as the nation hits one month today since the outbreak. There were 179 positive cases reported in the last 24 hours this morning. While the local and regional taskforces are striving to manage the outbreak, heightened surveillance is being carried out across the country. Meanwhile, everyone is requested to remain vigilant as lockdowns could come in any time, given the frequency of travels and the increasing gathering, especially in Thimphu that we are witnessing. People are urged to maintain adequate stock of essentials and be mindful of the threat that looms amid the pandemic. A quick snapshot of the COVID-19 situation in the red and yellow districts are as follows. 1. It is encouraging to note that the pattern of positive cases in 𝐖𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐩𝐡𝐨𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠 are mostly clustered or from affected communities only.  ...

A 30-year-old man was allegedly physically assaulted by his landlord's daughter in-law. The incident took place when the woman came to collect the monthly rent of Nu 4,000 on February 8. The tenant, who is a driver, who lived in the house with his wife, said he requested the woman if he could pay the rent when the situation was better, "It is not that I didn't have money," he said. "But I was worried this lockdown would prolong like last year.. So I made a request that we will pay two months' rent together He said that the woman got "so abusive" "She attacked me on my neck and I had to push her away. The woman's husband then arrived at the scene. However, she allegedly attacked him in front of her husband. "That's when I also lost control and slapped her he claimed. "I never intended to lay hands on her. It was only because I could not bear the pain. The driver alleged that the woman repeatedly asked her husband to...

Bhutan's success in avoiding coronavirus is almost unrivalled but a rare patient death - just the kingdom's fourth - shows more work was needed to fight the pandemic there, its leader says. The remote Himalayan nation of around 8,00,000 people, sandwiched between China and India, has recorded fewer Covid fatalities than almost anywhere else in the world. The only places with lower official tolls are a small handful of remote Pacific islands and countries that do not publish coronavirus data, such as North Korea and Turkmenistan. But Bhutan's Prime Minister Dr. Lotay Tshering - a physician who still conducts surgeries on the weekend as a "de-stresser" from the pressures of office -said this week's death was "a bitter reminder that we need to do more". Dr. Lotay Tshering said in a Facebook post late Saturday that "it felt like a bullet-hit to learn that one more precious life died with COVID-19. "I grieved with the nation and cont...