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  • Bhutan King on ‘mountains trekking mission’ to hold down Covid deaths

    Bhutan King on ‘mountains trekking mission’ to hold down Covid deaths

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    KATHMANDU: Wearing a baseball cap and knee-length traditional Gho robe, carrying a backpack, Bhutan’s king has walked through jungles infested with leeches and snakes, trekked mountains and quarantined several times in a hotel in the capital. For 14 months, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, has been travelling by foot, car and horse to remote hamlets to oversee measures to protect his tiny kingdom…