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CTA Calls for COVID-19 Transparency

July 3, 2020;

The exiled Central Tibetan Administration (CTA) has reiterated its call for Tibetans to counter prejudices brought on by COVID-19. Pleading for transparency, Ngawang Tenzin, head of the mental health and guidance committee, described how “such stigmatization drives people to deny their travel history, medical conditions in the fear of being ostracized and which in turn, creates a more dangerous scenario”. She added that “coronavirus infection does not mean certain death”.

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