Bhutan’s border town of Phuentsholing came out of the nearly four-month strict lockdown on Tuesday after administering both doses of Covid vaccines to its residents. The record for the world’s longest COVID-19 lockdown will go to Bhutan’s border town of Phuentsholing which was put under more than 100 days of lockdown to combat COVID-19. Went into lockdown on April 16th & only lifted on 10th August after second dose. In April, the country had similarly raced ahead of the world in vaccinating 93 per cent of its adult population with the first dose. As many as 1,200 vaccination centres were set up to inoculate over 64% of the country’s adult population with the first shot of a Covid-19 vaccine.

Source: Indian Express August 11, 2021 17:15 UTC