Public health

Cambodia has seen 3,339 dengue fever cases in the first half of 2020, down 88 percent from 28,285 cases over the same period last year, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said on Wednesday. ...

A Ministry of Health report released on Wednesday revealed that dengue fever cases have decreased by about 88 per cent in the first six months of the year compared to the same period last year. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen has reminded local authorities not to allow entertainment clubs and KTVs to reopen businesses if they have not been converted into restaurants. This follows the Health Ministry’s measures to stem any spread of  COVID-19. ...

Cambodia detected nine new cases of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing thus the total number of confirmed cases in the Kingdom to 165, the Ministry of Health announced in a press release this morning. ...

A total fund of more than $15 million has been donated to Cambodia Kantha Bopha Foundation for the first half of 2020 to support Cambodian children’s health care service. ...

The Health Ministry has reported 15 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number in Cambodia to 156. ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef)  commended the Health Ministry’s crackdown on four companies for violating the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitute. The four companies are Royal Platinum Co Ltd, Nutrilatt, LMM Distribution and VVH Import Export. ...

Civil society organisations asked the government to issue urgent measures in the health sector, as well as increase its budget in order to address non-communicable diseases, as nearly 60,000 Cambodians each year die from illnesses. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday said harsh action will be taken against authorities found committing any irregularities in the disbursement of cash aid for poor and vulnerable families hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. ...

Cambodia has recorded 341 measles cases in the first four months of this year, a significant increase from just 44 cases in the same period last year. The World Health Organisation (WHO) confirmed the total on Monday and reported that 65 percent of those infected ...

The Ministry of Health on Monday said a Covid-19 patient has recovered and been discharged from the Khmer–Soviet Friendship Hospital. This brings the number of recovered patients to 130 out of the 141 patients in the Kingdom – or about 92 per cent. Another eleven ...

According to a press release from the Ministry of Health issued yesterday morning, Cambodia has detected a COVID-19 (C-19) case, bringing the total number to 130. ...

Cambodia’s Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport will delay school openings and high school graduation examinations until the end of the year to prevent a second wave of COVID-19. ...

The guaranteed $190 per month minimum wage should be temporarily suspended, to ensure the sector remains competitive until the COVID-19 pandemic is resolved, says the secretary-general of the Garment Manufacturing Association in Cambodia (GMAC). ...

Cambodia must boost the development of the domestic tourism, agriculture and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to restore its economy  post-COVID-19, according to Ky Sereyvath, Director of China Study Center of RAC. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen announced on Wednesday he will officially launch the government’s cash subsidy programme for poor and vulnerable families adversely affected by COVID-19. ...

Labour Minister Ith Samheng has rejected a request by out-of-work employees in the entertainment sector to also be given the $40 aid, doled out to suspended garment and tourism workers.   ...

The Kingdom’s coastal Sihanoukville, where Chinese nationals national dominated nearly a half of businesses  before the COVID-19 outbreak, is seeing economic activity gradually rebound after   Middle Kingdom’s investors and workers started to return to the province as pandemic fears ease.​ ...

Amid the outbreak of the coronavirus the government plans to trim the 2021 state budget to around $4 billion, accounting for about a 50 percent drop from this year’s state budget, including an 11.3 percent drop for social affairs and 6.4 percent for general administration. ...

The Ministry of Health in a news release this morning announced this and said that the two new cases are both Cambodian men, aged 22 and 29, from Kampong Cham province. ...

The European Union, in a statement issued yesterday, said it is mobilising about $504 million in grants and loans to work with Cambodia in fighting the global COVID-19 (C-19) pandemic and mitigate its socio-economic effects. ...

Team Europe – the combined efforts of the EU, its member states and their financial institutions and implementing agencies – is mobilising €443 million ($503 million) in grants and loans to work with Cambodia in fighting Covid-19 and mitigating its socio-economic impacts. ...

The government has decided to charge all foreign visitors for lab testing, medical treatment and accommodation under health measures to prevent a second wave of COVID-19 (C-19) transmission in the country. ...

The World Bank had forecasted that Cambodia’s economy would shrink 1.0 percent this year before rebounding 6.0 percent next year which was released in Washington yesterday. ...