National Situational Update on COVID-19(12-08-2020)

Data as of 11/08/2020
Source: Ministry of Health-Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/MoHBhutan

2 men (25 and 59-year-old) and a 47-year-old woman have tested positive in the COVID-19 tests performed yesterday taking the overall total for confirmed cases to 116 and total for active cases to 19.

The 59-year-old man and the 47 year old woman were already in the quarantine in Phuntsholing.

The 25-year-old man is a loader working at the Regional Revenue & Customs Port in Phuntsholing. He came to the Phuntsholing Hospital on 11th August 2020 with symptoms. 183 primary contacts of the 25-year-old man have been traced so far. The contact tracing is still on-going. More updates on it will be provided later today.

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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