The Ministry of Health on Sunday (June 27) reported another 839 Covid-19 cases, all but 76 of which were linked to the February 20 community outbreak. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN
PHNOM PENH, June 27 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration called on Phnom Penh residents aged 18 and over who have not been vaccinated against Covid-19 to get the jabs from Sunday onwards as the vaccination campaign in the capital will end in the first week of July.
In an announcement dated June 25, it noted that the vaccination drive in Phnom Penh has been carried out in concerted effort among volunteers from the Ministry of National Defense, Samdech Techo Voluntary Youth Doctor Association (TYDA) and Union of Youth Federations of Cambodia, among others.
HCM City authorities have set up a working team responsible for buying Covid-19 vaccines for at least two-thirds of its population by year-end, said Nguyen Thanh Phong, the chairman of the People’s Committee.
PHNOM PENH, June 3 (Xinhua):Ten villagers subsequently died in northwest Cambodia s Pursat province after drinking locally-made rice wine, which was suspicious of containing high levels of methanol, a police chief said late on Thursday (June 4).
The incident occurred in three villages in Krakor district s Ansar Chambak commune when the victims consumed the tainted rice wine at the funeral of one of their neighbors last week, said Colonel Em Run, police chief of Krakor district. Ten people including eight women and two men were confirmed dead and several others have been hospitalized after drinking the adulterated wine, he told Xinhua over telephone.
Following instructions from the People’s Committee, the Vietnam National University- Ho Chi Minh City’s Military and Security Training Centre has now set up a new quarantine area with 600 beds and admitted 473 people.
Thailand’s Private Hospital Association is expected to use Moderna Inc. shots for its own inoculation programme alongside the government’s mass rollout of AstraZeneca Plc and Sinovac Biotech Ltd. vaccines.