Afraid of getting locked down inside a bicycle factory, an estimated 2,000 workers fled out of rear entrances, overwhelmed a deputy governor asking them to stay, carried their motorbikes through a pond, and scattered.
Phnom Penh City Hall has designated parts of two villages in Pur Senchey and Russei Keo districts as “orange zones,” shutting down travel and businesses in a return to restrictions for a factory area and a dense urban neighborhood.
“Most people don’t even know we exist. We deal with Covid-19 all day every day and yet people just think of doctors when they think of frontline workers,” Nguon Sokheng says, smile vanishing. “Nobody asks where the waste goes.”
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