Street disinfection to prevent the COVID-19 spread in Kandal province, Cambodia. (Photo: AFP/VNA)Some 400,000 of the newly-arrived 700,000 doses ofChina-donated Sinopharm vaccine will be administered to the high-risk people inthe informal economy, said Prime Minister Hun Sen in a message.
Phnom Penh has become a hot spot for COVID-19, he said, morevaccines will be given to people in the capital as much as possible.
Cambodia is now conducting a large-scale COVID-19vaccination campaign at both national and sub-national levels for frontlinemedical staff, officials of National Assembly and Senate and their familymembers, local officers, civil servants, teachers, journalists, factoryworkers, etc.
The Government of Cambodia has planned at least 10 milliondoses of COVID-19 vaccines for the campaign in 2021.
Cambodia has so far received more than 3 million doses ofCOVID-19 vaccines – 1.5 million doses of Sinovac bought from China, 1.3 milliondoses of China-donated Sinopharm, and 324,000 doses of AstraZeneca/SII(COVISHIELD) donated by WHO via COVAX Facility.
As of 4:00pm on April 3, Cambodia’s Ministry of Healthreported 99 new COVID-19 cases, taking the national count to 2,645, including1,585 recoveries and 19 deaths./.
VNA
