Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia, has expressed his concern over the possible new outbreak of COVID-19 in the country and re-insisted his compatriots to receive the booster dose or 3rd dose of COVID-19 vaccine.
“Even though Cambodia has recorded zero new infection of COVID-19 for 51 days and no new COVID-19-related death for months, it is still important to get the 3rd shot as the pandemic has not got away from us yet,” said the Premier in a special voice message this evening.
According to Samdech Techo Hun Sen, only over 9 million people have already received the 3rd jab while 5 million others not yet. At the same time, more than 2 million people obtained the 4th dose and over 200,000 the 5th dose.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen also reaffirmed that Cambodia has enough COVID-19 vaccines to administer to its people.
The Prime Minister once again urged his compatriots of all races, religious beliefs and political tendencies to get the 3rd dose, and those who already did so to receive the 4th jab and the frontliners to obtain the 5th shot to ensure their own, family and community immunity.
Samdech Techo Hun Sen asked the provincial and municipal authorities to provide favourable condition for their people to get vaccinated and to create vaccination teams to go down to villages and even houses of those who have not yet vaccinated.
The National Ad-hoc Commission for COVID-19 Vaccination and the provincial and municipal authorities are instructed to conduct a study no those who have not yet had the 3rd doses – who are they? Workers? Farmers? Where do they live? … so that medical teams and vaccines can be deployed particularly for them.
Cambodia has so far registered 136,262 confirmed cases of COVID-19, of which 133,204 have recovered, but 3,056 lost their lives.
Source: Agency Kampuchea Press