Bhutan PM mourns fourth Covid death

Thimphu, Jan 30 (Agency) Bhutan Prime Minister Lotey Tshering has mourned the death of country’s fourth death due to Covid-19 and said more work was need to combat pandemic in the country. Taking to Facebook on Saturday, the PM said, We were shot with another dose of reality yesterday (January 28). Right in the middle of the battle, it felt like a bullet-hit to learn that one more precious life died with Covid-19. She was a chronic kidney patient on dialysis.

I grieved with the nation and continue to offer my prayers for our dear friend.” He further said, “Believing that we must and can save every Bhutanese from Covid-19, we are putting up a relentless fight. But yesterday was a bitter reminder that we need to do more. It could have been anyone of us, or one of our family members. “In every sense, we are fighting one of the biggest battles of the pandemic today. We saw the one-day highest cases yesterday, 205, since our first record of the disease in March 2020.”

According to Johns Hopkins data, Bhutan has recorded 4,566 Covid-19 cases and four deaths till now. PM Tshering said, “In other countries, the success rate is measured by the decreasing number of hospital admission, those on ventilation and the number of deaths. The measuring yards are different from ours. “Our motivation is to eliminate the disease because we cannot afford to lose our people to something that is preventable. His Majesty has set high standards for us.” “People must also know that most hospitalisation and deaths to Omicron are the unvaccinated ones. We are going all out to procure the paediatric vaccines for our children, and we are confident that it will happen very soon. But at the same time, we have more than 8,500 individuals above 12 years who have not come forward to take the vaccines,” he added.