Cases of common cold and diarrhoea, the leading causes of morbidity among Bhutanese, has decreased so much that diarrhoea is now out of the top 10 list of morbidity in the country.

As per the routine health records, between January and August this year, the country recorded 111,812 common cold cases. Although the numbers are high, it is a decrease of about 70,000 cases as compared to the same period in 2019. There were 180,948 flu cases reported last year.

According to the health ministry’s annual health bulletin 2020, last year common cold accounted for 19 percent of the diseases in the country.

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