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Bhutan aims to become free of stray dogs by 2030

Last year, authorities launched the Accelerated Dog Population Management and Rabies Control Programme (NADPM and RCP) with the twin aims of achieving 100 percent sterilization of stray dogs, register, and vaccinate all pet dogs, and control feral dogs.

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No widespread community outbreak in Bhutan

Following 21 days of nationwide lockdown, the health ministry’s Technical Advisory Group (TAG) has confirmed that despite the surge in the number of positive cases (after the lockdown), there was no widespread community outbreak in the country

'Bhutan has done well in containing COVID-19'

Since the idea of women empowerment swept the world, women are becoming powerful every passing day and now more than ever, it is about improving the way the world perceives the strength of women, said Prof Namrata Pradhan of the Royal University of Bhutan

27 more test COVID-19 positive at Indian military camp

Of the 62 new COVID-19 positive cases detected after the nationwide lockdown on August 11, 48 are employees of Project DANTAK and Indian Military Training Team (IMTRAT)

102 crimes reported during lockdown

Seventeen days after the nationwide lockdown, Thimphu Police received 102 cases—prowling (58), domestic violence (15), and substance abuse (29)

Bhutan yet to finalise guidelines to ease lockdown

With the COVID-19 positive cases increasing, total lifting of the nationwide lockdown is still uncertain

Will Bhutan ever know its source of COVID-19?

As COVID-19 reaches to interior parts of the country, the health ministry is unable to establish how and when the virus entered Phuentsholing, which is today a red zone

Essential medical services in Bhutan running uninterruptedly

Despite the nationwide lockdown, the health ministry has managed to keep essential medical services running uninterrupted across Bhutan

Happiness and well-being project to be completed next year in Bhutan

Happiness and Well-being Project, coordinated by the Paro College of Education (PCE) for the nine colleges under the Royal University of Bhutan (RUB), is on track

Paro relaxes lockdown outside towns

With no new COVID-19 cases for a week, residents in buffer zones and gewogs in Paro - Bhutan's valley town where its only international airport is located - started moving out of their homes yesterday

COVID-19 positive frontline worker moved to Thimphu

Sarpang like any other dzongkhags in the country was on its way to ease the lockdown when a frontline worker test positive for COVID-19 yesterday

Bhutanese citizens giving back to those in need during pandemic

Tsheten Tamang, a class V student never had more than Nu 50 in her pocket. The daughter of a daily wage earner earned, for the first time, Nu 300 helping her parent’s neighbour just before the nationwide lockdown

Surveillance stepped up as more positive cases emerge in Phuentsholing

Vehicle movement to and from Phuentsholing is stopped for the next three days to step up surveillance in Bhutan's border town following the 19 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours

Solidarity during lockdown in Bhutan

Organisations, individuals and associations across Bhutan are providing free services to help combat COVID-19

Bhutan’s pandemic fight exemplary: WHO

With the nationwide lockdown entering the third week, the country’s lockdown story so far has been positive

Nationwide lockdown inspires reading among Bhutanese children

Never in her eight years did Keetsho Tenzin Pema read like in the past 15 days of the nationwide lockdown in Bhutan