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Staffs at Phnom Penh International Airport transport a shipment from China of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines on May 11, 2021. Heng Chivoan
Kingdom orders 5M more doses of Sinovac vaccines
Tue, 11 May 2021
Prime Minister Hun Sen has given his approval to place an order for an extra five million doses of Sinovac vaccines as part of a drive to acquire 26 million doses for the country’s 13 million people, according to Ministry of Health secretary of state York Sambath.
The approval comes as 500,000 doses of the Sinovac vaccine touched down in Phnom Penh on the morning of May 11, with an additional 500,000 doses slated to arrive on May 16 and another one million on May 23, Sambath said.
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The first shipment of 324,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/SII Covid-19 vaccine is delivered to Phnom Penh International Airport on Tuesday. Heng Chivoan
AstraZeneca jabs touch down in Phnom Penh airport
Tue, 2 March 2021
The first shipment of 324,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/SII vaccine which was provided through the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) Facility was delivered to Phnom Penh International Airport on March 2. The rest of the COVAX provided vaccines will arrive in Cambodia at a later date.
The first person to receive this vaccine will be Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has announced that he plans to be vaccinated on March 4 at Calmette Hospital.