THIMPU: Bhutan Prime Minister Lotay Tshering has communicated worry over the overarching danger of Covid-19 in the country and said: "We will be cleared out in the event that we can't handle the infection now."
In a location to the country on Friday, Prime Minister Tshering helped individuals to remember the danger the pandemic actually presented even following a year and half of its development in the nation, revealed Kuensel.
"Numerous in the nation imagined that in the wake of encountering two scenes of Covid-19 flare-up, the most exceedingly terrible was finished. The inoculation program likewise came as a beam of expectation for some," Lyonchhen said adding "However look where we are today."
He said that it was inescapable that Bhutan too felt the effect of the demolishing circumstance around there, adding that notwithstanding every one of the arrangements, there was no assurance that the nation would not experience what India was going through.
"The danger from the southern lines has now arrived at the east. In the event that we are not cautious, we will endure similar destiny as our neighbors." he said during his location.
Lyonchhen said that this was on the grounds that the SARS-CoV-2 infection was quick transforming and it was getting more contagious and overpowering. He said that the nation was in effect gradually encompassed from all corners and if satisfactory control measures were not set up and if individuals didn't cling to the preventive measures, the nation would be overpowered inside no time.
"We will be cleared out quickly on the off chance that we can't handle the spread now," the leader said.
In the interim, Trashigang town was put under a lockdown beginning at 7 pm on May 21. All trips to the Yonphula homegrown air terminal were likewise suspended.
The nation revealed 1,392 positive Covid-19 cases with one passing up until now, according to World Health Organization on Sunday. A sum of 482,038 antibody dosages have been directed during the said period.