Lyonchhen will be the second person to receive Covid jab

The stage is set. With 550,000 doses of Covishield vaccine at hand, Bhutan will roll out the nationwide vaccination campaign this weekend.

In line with Buddhist astrology, the first recipient of the vaccine on March 27 would be a 30-year-old woman, born in the year of the Monkey. The nationwide campaign would begin in Thimphu.  

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