Public health

The Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia Wang Wentian said today 600,000 doses of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine, the first batch of one million doses promised to Cambodia by China, will be delivered to Cambodia this weekend. ...

The Royal Government of Cambodia is committed to find 20 million doses of vaccines against COVID-19 for 10 million Cambodian people, Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday . ...

The Ministry of Health yesterday warned people to be careful about avian influenza (bird flu) during upcoming festivals and ancestral ceremonies. ...

Cambodia is expected to receive 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine of which 11 million doses are donations from friendly nations and partner organisations. ...

Health Minister Mam Bun Heng has urged all municipal and provincial governors to strengthen COVID-19 preventive measures at ceremonies and wedding parties. ...

The studies of more than 30,000 students have been affected by their schools being taken as quarantine centres for Cambodian migrant workers returning from Thailand, especially now with the numbers increasing every day. ...

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen announced Friday via a Facebook voice message that the Chinese government has provided 1 million doses of COVID19 vaccines to the Royal Government of Cambodia to vaccinate 500,000 people. ...

Cambodia is a safe tourist destination with the Kingdom ranked by the World Health Organization (WHO) as among the top nations in the world with the best COVID-19 containment and impact management.​ .. ...

An outbreak of avian influenza (bird flu) in Battambang province’s Ek Phnom district has killed around 1,300 chickens from one location, officials said. ...

Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine on January 13 called on the public and members of the armed forces to pay close attention to their health as colder weather sweeps across the region. ...

The government has decided to increase the budget allocated to four border provinces for the quarantine of Cambodian workers returning from Thailand by 700 million riels ($170,000). ...

The Thai Ministry of Public Health’s Department of Disease Control has reported on its website that 157 Cambodians working in Thailand have tested positive for COVID-19. ...

More than 80,000 women received maternity allowances last year amounting to $7.9 million from the government through the National Social Security Fund. ...

The ministries of Health and Interior have plans in the works to establish nearly 30 new medical facilities in underserved provinces, including health centres, health posts and referral hospitals. ...

The Ministry of Health has again reminded all private health service providers to issue computer-printed prescriptions and results from laboratories after finding that some clinics still give patients handwritten paperwork which is not in accordance with medical regulations. ...

The Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MoEYS) has just issued a directive this morning through Prime Minister Hun Sen in his special statement broadcast live from his residence in Takhmao city, Kandal province by the TVK to allow private educational institutions to resume physical ...

Minister of Health Mam Bunheng has announced today that shops and restaurants related to the community transmission on November 28 are now allowed to reopen starting today. ...

The government has extended its financial support programmes to aid the garment and textile industry, tourism sectors and poor people for another three months from January to March 2021, according to a government statement released yesterday. ​ ...

Around 200 people, including medical staff, officials and locals from Prey Veng province’s Preah Sdech district, have submitted their petition to Minister of Interior Sar Kheng requesting legal action against Operational Health District of Preah Sdach director You Sy Le for allegedly embezzling National Social ...

Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine addressed the new mutation of the Covid-19 virus that was found in England, saying that research was underway in multiple countries. ...

The Ministry of Health has claimed that as many as 10 to 15 per cent of recovered Covid-19 patients could potentially suffer a spontaneous relapse which would again render the virus communicable. ...

Minister of Interior Sar Kheng stressed to authorities of provinces bordering Thailand that they must strictly enforce instructions from Prime Minister Hun Sen concerning Covid-19 preventive measures following detection of a new outbreak of the disease in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province. ...

The Japanese government has provided $288,473 in total for three recipient organisations under the framework of the Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Project (“KUSANONE”). The funds are earmarked to be used for the installation of medical equipment, braille equipment and hearing diagnostic equipment. ...

Following the Covid-19 outbreak in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province, Cambodian Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng has urgently advised residents near the border to exercise heightened caution and quarantine all people crossing the border for 14 days. ...