Report by : Gan Yung Chyan
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Cambodians wearing face masks in Phnom Penh. Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP via Getty Images
According to The Phnom Penh Post on 28 April 2020, Cambodia has a cumulative number of 122 covid cases. 119 Cambodians have recovered while three patients are hospitalized.
Although the number of covid cases is lower than cases in neighbouring countries, the disease risk level for virus transmission between individuals is at an "alarming rate", Cambodia Healthy Ministry spokesperson Or Vandine warned.
“Cambodia’s coronavirus scenario is classified as being at an early stage of the pandemic because of ongoing transmissions worldwide. A second wave can occur at any instance,” she responded to The Phnom Penh Post.
Meanwhile, there are reports of Cambodia exporting undetected covid cases to China by Cambodian airlines. On average there are up to five cases weekly to China since the beginning of April.
Cambodia Angkor Air, JC Airlines, Sky Angkor Airlines and Lanmei Airlines operate scheduled flights to China.
According to news reports quoting the Guangdong Province Health Commission, a 37-year-old Chinese national showed covid symptoms after arriving in Guangzhou from Cambodia on 10 April 2020.
On 22 April 2020, another Chinese national, 41, was diagnosed positive with covid after leaving Phnom Penh for Guangzhou.
The two cases are allegedly related to a 45-year-old businessman who was diagnosed with covid in China on 3 April 2020.
In a media conference on 13 April 2020, Vandine pointed out that the man who lives in Phnom Penh threw a dinner party just before he left the city, and that six close contacts, including two Vietnamese, a Cambodian couple, and a Chinese national were infected with covid.
Cambodia had five covid infection clusters- Muslim event participants, Viking boaters, French tourists in Sihanoukville, Thai migrant workers and the Chinese partygoers.
The authorities have investigated the clusters although they have yet to pinpoint the original source of Covid-19 for the Chinese cluster. They continue to follow-up on three remaining contacts.
To date, 11,576 samples have been tested at the National Institute of Public Health and Institut Pasteur Du Cambodge. The figure grew by some 1,500 from last week, with 723 samples per one million population being tested.
“Between 100 and 300 samples are taken daily by our 3,000 rapid response teams throughout the Kingdom. All of them are medically trained to take samples from suspected carriers,” Or Vandine said.
/ KUCINTA SETIA
Image : Cambodians wearing face masks in Phnom Penh. Tang Chhin Sothy / AFP via Getty Images
According to The Phnom Penh Post on 28 April 2020, Cambodia has a cumulative number of 122 covid cases. 119 Cambodians have recovered while three patients are hospitalized.
Although the number of covid cases is lower than cases in neighbouring countries, the disease risk level for virus transmission between individuals is at an "alarming rate", Cambodia Healthy Ministry spokesperson Or Vandine warned.
“Cambodia’s coronavirus scenario is classified as being at an early stage of the pandemic because of ongoing transmissions worldwide. A second wave can occur at any instance,” she responded to The Phnom Penh Post.
Meanwhile, there are reports of Cambodia exporting undetected covid cases to China by Cambodian airlines. On average there are up to five cases weekly to China since the beginning of April.
Cambodia Angkor Air, JC Airlines, Sky Angkor Airlines and Lanmei Airlines operate scheduled flights to China.
According to news reports quoting the Guangdong Province Health Commission, a 37-year-old Chinese national showed covid symptoms after arriving in Guangzhou from Cambodia on 10 April 2020.
On 22 April 2020, another Chinese national, 41, was diagnosed positive with covid after leaving Phnom Penh for Guangzhou.
The two cases are allegedly related to a 45-year-old businessman who was diagnosed with covid in China on 3 April 2020.
In a media conference on 13 April 2020, Vandine pointed out that the man who lives in Phnom Penh threw a dinner party just before he left the city, and that six close contacts, including two Vietnamese, a Cambodian couple, and a Chinese national were infected with covid.
Cambodia had five covid infection clusters- Muslim event participants, Viking boaters, French tourists in Sihanoukville, Thai migrant workers and the Chinese partygoers.
The authorities have investigated the clusters although they have yet to pinpoint the original source of Covid-19 for the Chinese cluster. They continue to follow-up on three remaining contacts.
To date, 11,576 samples have been tested at the National Institute of Public Health and Institut Pasteur Du Cambodge. The figure grew by some 1,500 from last week, with 723 samples per one million population being tested.
“Between 100 and 300 samples are taken daily by our 3,000 rapid response teams throughout the Kingdom. All of them are medically trained to take samples from suspected carriers,” Or Vandine said.
Or Vandine urged people in Cambodia to continue practising safe distancing and good hygiene practices.
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