Pandemics

Cambodia is looking for workarounds to ship cargo to China while avoiding the risks and problems associated with ongoing severe congestion at Sino-Vietnamese land border gates, which has been blamed on Beijing’s response to the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant and its “dynamic zero-Covid” policy. ...

Monday being the first day for the administration of booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine to adolescents aged 12 to 18 received less than encouraging result as less than 50,000 turned up to get their shots. ...

Cambodia’s official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) indicate 14 more Omicron cases – bringing the total cases of the new variant to 48 and the COVID case total to 120,487 cases. ...

Israel’s oral vaccine is heading to Southeast Asia, Oramed Pharmaceutical announced Wednesday. ...

Omicron still poses “very high” risk and could overwhelm healthcare systems, the WHO warned on Wednesday, as the highly transmissible coronavirus variant fuelled record outbreaks in many countries.   ...

Amid fears of large-scale transmission of the new Covid-19 variant Omicron, border province authorities are looking at the possibility of implementing strict measures for crossing migrant workers, including implementing mandatory quarantines and PCR testing. These measures are the result of what was learnt dealing with ...

The WHO warned Tuesday that the Omicron coronavirus variant could lead to overwhelmed healthcare systems even though early studies suggest it leads to milder disease, as China and Germany brought back tough restrictions to stamp out new infection surges and Cambodia’s Omicron infections jumped to ...

The Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia has presented Vietnam with medical supplies to support the country in the COVID-19 fight. ...

A senior Australian diplomat commended the Cambodian government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis and the actions it took to protect its people and the economy. ...

A total of 114,183 Cambodian candidates are taking a national high school graduation exam on Monday after the situation of COVID-19 pandemic had been brought under control. ...

A total of 783,000 doses of Pfizer’s Covid-19 vaccines out of a promised 2.3 million doses from the Australian government arrived in Cambodia on the evening of December 26 and were received directly by Prime Minister Hun Sen at the Phnom Penh International Airport. ...

Despite the outbreak of Omicron, a new COVID-19 variant of concern, Cambodia will continue to fully resume its socio-economic activities which began since Nov. 1, 2021. ...

Cambodia last evening received 783,000 out of  the over 2.35 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine committed by the Government and people of Australia to the Government and people of the Kingdom of Cambodia. ...

The Minister of Labor and Vocational Training said that even in the context of Covid-19 pandemic, Cambodia received and approved 195 new investment projects and 43 production expansion requests that could create more than 150,000 jobs. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen is set to receive 2.3 million doses of Pfizer vaccine, provided by the Government of Australia this evening. ...

Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday recommended that frontline health workers be given a second booster shot to bolster their immune systems against Covid-19 especially the Omicron variant. ...

The Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications began selling and distributing Molnupiravir capsules yesterday. ...

After 10 months of tragedy brought about by the February 20 Community Event, Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday declared an official end to the scourge. ...

Over 260,000 Cambodian migrant workers have returned from abroad, mostly from Thailand, since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic through the end of 2021, according to the National Committee for Counter Trafficking (NCCT). ...

Minister of Education, Youth and Sport Hang Chuon Naron has given the green light for early childhood education service providers to resume operations nationwide from January 10 through at least October 31, 2022. ...

Cambodia is going to receive about 2.3 million doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a donation of Australia, this weekend. ...

The government has decided to suspend the recruitment of new government officers in 2022 to save national budget to help Cambodians with their health and social issues while handling the Covid-19 crisis. ...

As Cambodia records it 2nd case of the Omicron variant, a report from researchers at Imperial College London says that a 3rd ‘booster’ dose could provide around 85% protection against severe effects of the Omicron variant. ...

The Ministry of Health called on the public to be vigilant and prepared for the arrival of the Omicron variant in Cambodia so that they will not have any regrets when it gets here. ...