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Coronavirus Scare: Bhutan imposes restriction on foreign travellers visiting Himalayan Kingdom for next two weeks

| @indiablooms | Mar 06, 2020, at 04:27 pm

Jaigaon, Indo-Bhutan Border/UNI:  The Bhutanese government has imposed restriction on visiting tourists to this Himalayan kingdom for two weeks with immediate effect after a US tourist was diagnosed with coronavirus.

The ministry of Health of Royal Bhutan in a release today said in the wake of confirmed first COVID-19 case in Bhutan after an American tourist tested positive for the virus, the government

has ordered restriction on foreign travellers visiting the country for at least two weeks from now.

The civil aviation ministry was also informed that no foreign traveller would be allowed to board the airplane bound for Bhutan.

Meanwhile, two German tourists were today held at Phuentsholing, the gateway of Bhutan from Bengal, as they were prevented from going farther into Bhutan. However, they tested negative to COVID-19. The guide and driver have been released from observation. The two are not yet allowed to enter Bhutan. 

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