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AFP Cambodia’s Ministry of Health on Thursday confirmed the country’s first COVID-19-related death, one year to the day that the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus that causes the disease a global pandemic. The patient, 50, was a driver for a Chinese company chief who lived in Sihanoukville city, and who also had tested positive for COVID-19, according to a ministry statement. The driver died at a Phnom Penh hospital, the statement said, without providing further details. The ministry also announced Thursday that it had confirmed 39 new cases that were...

BVDV is more commonly known in Cambodia by its Khmer name, which translates to “watery disease”. Ket Saroeun, the head of the Kratie provincial Veterinary Office, told The Post on March 3 that after reports of a series of cattle deaths were received from the people living in Sambor district’s Kampong Cham commune, he urged the village veterinary agency to investigate and assist with saving the remaining cattle. “After testing was done by our veterinary agency it was determined that the cattle had died of foot-and-mouth disease and [BVDV],” he said. According to Saroeun, foot-and-mo...

Cattle in Kampong Chhnang and Kratie have been dying from disease over the past two weeks and livestock officials have now confirmed that the deaths were caused by both foot-and-mouth disease and bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV).

The National Assembly (NA) plans to call an extraordinary legislative session to pass the Covid-19 prevention and control draft law which could also help with the future containment of other contagious diseases.

The Bar Association of the Kingdom of Cambodia (BAKC) announced that over a period of 100 days they had provided free legal representation in 2,167 cases on behalf of poor people.