Phuentsholing is Red Zone
August 14th, 2020
With growing concerns that there could be a possible community infection in Phuentsholing, the government has declared the drungkhag as a red zone.
While the government maintained that technically there was no local transmission of the virus since the enforcement of lockdown on August 11, the decision was taken following the detection of 12 new Covid-19 positive cases yesterday.
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