After 10 days of self-isolation, NagaWorld strikers returned for another round of Covid-19 testing and were given no further instructions to stay home — leading them to begin planning for a return to rallies.
NagaWorld protesters are not permitted to rally in public spaces, City Hall said on Tuesday, urging them to gather at a park in the city’s outskirts when workers clear Covid-19 testing and quarantine requirements.
Daily Covid-19 cases hit 500 on Monday as Phnom Penh officials set off to remind restaurants to keep up health precautions on Valentine’s Day evening. No significant changes in health measures have been announced so far.
Though quarantine NagaWorld union workers say PCR test results trickled in this week, one told VOD he had received conflicting information about his infection status.
Prime Minister Hun Sen suggested limits on large gatherings after health authorities detected more than 200 infections in a day, the highest case count since October 17.
Phnom Penh police on Sunday disseminated four more arrest warrants against NagaWorld protesters for obstructing official measures, explaining that they were for Covid-19 Law violations.
UPDATED 9:52 p.m. — At least two NagaWorld union members have been arrested Saturday evening, according to police, following Covid-19 testing of more than 200 protesters.
Transcripts of phone calls between a CNRP activist and his wife and among opposition supporters, in which they spoke of Covid-19 concerns including a potential government cover-up, featured in the penultimate hearing of a mass trial case at the Phnom Penh Municipal Court.
A two-star police general and two associates who were sentenced to 18-months in prison for having drinks during the Covid-19 lockdown last April pleaded for sentence reductions at the Supreme Court on Monday.
The Phnom Penh Municipal Court on Thursday presented transcripts extracted from defendants’ private conversations in a plotting and incitement trial against CNRP officials and supporter.
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