Disasters and emergency response

Prime Minister Hun Sen has decided to use the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines as the booster dose for the Chinese-manufactured Sinopharm and Sinonac vaccines, while the US-donated Johnson & Johnson vaccines will be used for ethnic minority groups and migrant workers. ...

July 31 marked the 12th anniversary of the listing of Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum Archive in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Programme. This year, it was observed virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic. ...

With heavy rain in the last three days, the water level had risen at the Tonle Sap River at Phsar Krom Station in Kampong Chhnang province but thankfully it has not affected the crops of farmers along the river side. ...

Cambodia launched this morning at the Peace Palace the vaccination campaign of children aged between 12 and 17 years old against the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen made a major speech this morning at opening ceremony of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign for children and young people from 12 to 17 years old. ...

Mr. Hun Sen banned public hospitals nationwide from charging fees and he has also appealed to private hospitals to keep fees for Covid-19 testing affordable. ...

Tboung Khmum provincial authorities have prepared safe shelters for residents in the event of a Mekong River flood this rainy season. ...

The Health Ministry yesterday confirmed Cambodia will receive eight million more doses of Covid-19 vaccines by middle of this month. ...

In the wake of the rapid spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19, Prime Minister Hun Sen announced yesterday that the AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines will be used as booster shots for all Cambodians who have been vaccinated twice. ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in Cambodia on July 30 called on people from all walks of life to make a concerted effort to stamp out the spread of the novel coronavirus. ...

The government has set up a public-private working group to restore and prop up the tourism sector in Cambodia during and after the Covid-19 crisis. ...

The Ministry of Health has allowed 22 more provinces to provide home-based treatment for mild and asymptomatic Covid-19 cases. ...

After the government imposed nationwide Covid-19 restrictions to stem the new coronavirus Delta variant, Tbong Khmum province has begun enforcing them with a night-time curfew effective through August 12. ...

The Covid-19 outbreak has put families, the economy and the country under tremendous pressure. Protecting public health to save lives is more important and urgent than ever. ...

While Southeast Asia becomes embattled by the Delta variant of Covid-19 this summer, Cambodia has cause to stay optimistic. ...

The first batch of 455,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine donated by the US touched down in Phnom Penh on the morning of July 30. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen ordered a temporary ban on imported meat, although details are still forthcoming, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. ...

Phnom Penh municipal authorities are taking stern administrative measures to combat and prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The United Kingdom has announced the donation of 415,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine to the people of Cambodia to help fight COVID-19 according to an official statement from the British Embassy in Cambodia. ...

Cambodia’s international reserves remain as high as $20.8 billion, while the banking sector stays healthy amid the threat of COVID-19 pandemic. ...

The Ministry of Labour and Vocational Training has provided financial assistance to 59,012 workers from 175 factories in the garment, footwear and bag industry located in lockdown areas in Phnom Penh, Kandal province’s Takhmao town and Sihanoukville (Phase 2, 3 and 4). ...

More than 2,500 trucks of garbage and overgrown grass, equivalent to 12,050 cubic metres, were removed following four months of restoration work on the almost four-kilometre-long Boeng Tompun canal, which was built to prevent flooding in five Phnom Penh districts. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia has decided to temporarily suspend traffic through the Cambodian-Thai border, except for the transportation of goods and special cases. ...

Controversy over seized buffalo meat from India continues as the World Health Organization (WHO) said Covid-19 could not be contracted through contact with food or food packaging while the Health Ministry is staying keeping mum on the subject. ...