Bhutan confirms first coronavirus case

The  isolated Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan has confirmed its first case of the coronavirus after a US tourist tried positive, the prime minister said Friday.

The small, land-bolted nation, celebrated for measuring Gross National Happiness has developed as a well-known tourist goal in recent year.

In any case, the government quickly shut outskirts to remote guests for about fourteen days with an end goal to confine the effect of a sickness that has unleashed ruin in progressively created nations around the globe.

The 76-year-elderly person showed up in Bhutan from India on March 2 and was admitted to the emergency clinic on March 5 with a fever, where he tried constructive for COVID-19, the office of Prime Minister Lotay Tshering said in a Facebook post.

The post included that there would be "two weeks' limitation on every single approaching visitor with prompt impact".

Schools in three zones - including the capital Thimphu - will be shut for about fourteen days from Friday.

The patient, who has not been named, left Washington on February 10, visiting India from February 21 to March 1.

Wellbeing authorities state they have followed about 90 individuals he came into contact with in Bhutan, with his 59-year-old accomplice, driver and guide all being set in the isolate. None is right now demonstrating indications.

Eight Indian nationals who were on the trip to Bhutan have likewise been isolated.

More than 3,000, people have passed on from novel coronavirus, with almost 100,000 affirmed diseases all around.