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CTA Fighting COVID-19 Stigma

June 26, 2020;

The exiled Central Tibetan Administration’s (CTA) Health Department has urged the public not to stigmatize COVID-19 patients. Health Kalon, Choekyong Wangchuk, has called on people, “to shed the stigma around the virus with the right information, sense of unity and compassion, instead of driving people to deny their travel history, medical conditions in the fear of being ostracized”, adding that, “the virus should be vilified not the person”.

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