National Situational Update on COVID-19 (20-10-2020)

Data as of 19/10/2020
Source: Ministry of Health-Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MoHBhutan

3 new cases detected over the last 24 hours.

Two are expatriate men aged 31 and 34 years who entered the country on 16th October 2020 and were in quarantine in Phuntsholing.

The other is a 21-year-old Bhutanese woman who returned from the Middle East on 20th September 2020. She was in a quarantine facility in Thimphu.

They are all being moved to the isolation.

DEFINITIONS:

a. Confirmed: number of people who have tested positive through COVID-19 tests.
b. Active: number of people who are currently in the isolation facilities because they are still COVID-19 positive.
c. *Recovered: number of people who have tested negative on COVID-19 test and declared as recovered. Those who test negative twice over a 24 hour period are kept under 14 days of observation in a quarantine facility.

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