"Felt Like A Bullet, Grieved With Nation": Bhutan PM Mourns Rare Covid Death
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 The only places with lower official tolls are a small handful of remote Pacific islands and countries that do not publish coronavirus data, such as North Korea and Turkmenistan.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