“Feeling like a bullet, grieving with the nation”: Bhutan PM lamented the death of Covid Rare
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New Delhi: Bhutan’s success in avoiding Coronavirus is almost incomparable but the death of patients is rare – only the fourth kingdom – shows more work needed to fight the pandemic there, the leader said.
The Himalayan state is far around 8.00,000 people, sandwiched between China and India, has recorded fewer Covid deaths than almost anywhere else in the world.
The only place with a lower official toll road is a small handful of islands and remote Pacific countries that do not publish Coronavirus data, such as North Korea and Turkmenistan.
But Bhutan Tshutan Tshutan Prime Minister – A doctor who is still carrying out surgery on weekends as “de-stresser” from office pressure – says death this week is “bitter reminder that we need to do more”.
Tshering said at a facebook post Saturday night that “it feels like a bullet to know that a more valuable life dies with Covid-19.
“I grieve with the nation and continue to offer my prayer for our best friend,” he added.
Prime Minister said Bhutan remained committed to fully eliminating the disease and said the nation was unable to “lose our people for something to be prevented”.
Bhutan, like many of the world, has seen a surge in infection related to an omicron variant that is very contagious.
Friday’s death came on the same day as the health authority reported 205 new Coronavirus cases – a national record since the pandemic began.
The kingdom still has less than 5,000 cases as a whole since the disease appeared two years ago, and Bhutan had vaccinated almost all the adult populations in mid 2021.
Indian’s main neighbors and trading partners, on the contrary, passed 41 million infections confirmed on Sunday.
India has also recorded nearly 500,000 deaths, the highest-confirmed fatality calculation in the world after the United States and Brazil – although research has suggested the real victims of the country could reach 10 times higher.
