Cambodia Reports Zero New COVID-19 Cases For 1st Time In Over A Year
Umer Jamshaid Published May 10, 2022 | 03:37 PM
Cambodia reported no new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the first time since the third wave of community transmission broke out in February last year, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said
PHNOM PENH, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 10th May, 2022 ) :Cambodia reported no new COVID-19 cases on Tuesday, the first time since the third wave of community transmission broke out in February last year, Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen said.
"Today, it is the first time since Feb. 20, 2021 that Cambodia has found not even a single new case of COVID-19," he said in a special audio message.
This is a great success that resulted from our joint efforts in the fight against COVID-19, and I'd like to thank all compatriots for participating in the anti-COVID-19 movement," he added.
However, Cambodia is not COVID-19 free yet, as it still has 29 active cases, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
Hun Sen attributed the success in the fight against COVID-19 to the kingdom's high vaccination rates and urged eligible people to go for booster doses, the third or the fourth shots, when their turns come.
"We'd like to thank all foreign friends for providing vaccines to us, enabling us to give them free of charge to our people," he said. "Vaccines have given us an opportunity to reopen our economy and businesses." The Southeast Asian nation launched a national vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in February 2021, with China being the key vaccine supplier and most of the vaccines used in the kingdom are Sinovac and Sinopharm.
The country has so far vaccinated at least one dose of vaccines to almost 15 million people, or 93.7 percent of its 16 million population, the MoH said, adding that of them, 14.22 million, or 89 percent, have been fully vaccinated with two required shots. Buoyed by high vaccination coverage, Cambodia has resumed all socioeconomic activities and reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travelers without quarantine since November last year.
Kin Phea, director-general of the International Relations Institute at the Royal academy of Cambodia, said vaccines have protected lives, stabilized health system and helped restore the economy.
"The royal government of Cambodia has made the correct decision to choose China as a strategic supplier of COVID-19 vaccines so that's why Cambodia has enough vaccines for its people," he told Xinhua.
According to the MoH, since the pandemic hit Cambodia in January 2020, the kingdom has recorded a total of 136,262 confirmed cases with 133,177 recoveries and 3,056 deaths.
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