The Health Ministry is discouraging people from traveling to high-risk Covid-19 areas during the Khmer New Year and suggests reducing gatherings, drinking, dancing and singing, stopping short of banning festivities amid the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak to date.
Five demining dogs who have finished basic training are primed to start learning to sniff out Covid-19, even in crowds, the Cambodian Mine Action Center says.
An 8 p.m. curfew announced Thursday by the Phnom Penh municipality will apply to anyone out on the city’s streets — whether on foot or motorbike, governor Khuong Sreng said.
Phnom Penh governor Khuong Sreng has announced an 8 p.m. curfew in the capital from Thursday through April 14 amid the country’s worst Covid-19 outbreak to date, ordering a halt to gatherings and road traffic at night.
Amid Cambodia’s current Covid-19 outbreak, authorities are advising against travel for Qingming Festival and outlining quarantine measures, and those in the Chinese-Cambodian community are finding ways to celebrate at home.
Preah Sihanouk province has opened up Covid-19 vaccinations to members of the general public below the age of 60, with commune authorities preparing to organize registrations for anyone 18 to 59 years old.
In the two countries long marked by U.S. involvement in their media sectors, Chinese training programs, partnerships and media ownership in recent years have added a new dimension to the under-pressure media environments.
A man with a high fever took a Covid-19 test and hoped for treatment, but died on Saturday before the test returned and a space could open at Phnom Penh’s health centers.
Locked-down casinos in a Kandal province commune have seen more than 100 Covid-19 cases, including 64 new ones on Friday, but the commune chief said the danger is sealed off from the rest of the community.
Cambodia’s latest Covid-19 deaths include a 38-year-old Cambodian DJ who was found to be positive just over a week before he died on Thursday, and a 43-year-old Chinese man with a registered address at a Kandal casino who tested positive two weeks ago.
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