Hun Sen calls for immediate measures against rising COVID-19 cases, especially Omicron as 200+ new cases announced for Monday

 

Hun Sen calls for immediate measures against rising COVID-19 cases, especially Omicron as 200+ new cases announced for Monday

As he announced that 200 new cases have been detected on Monday, Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on all relevant ministries and institutions to take immediate measures in addition to the existing ones in response to the rising COVID-19 cases due to the dominance of Omicron variant.

Daily infections keep increasing, to over 200 cases yesterday, the largest single day infections detected to date since Omicron was first detected in December 14 last year, said the Premier in a special voice message last evening, re-appealing to the people to pay attention to the preventive measures, especially the Three Dos, Three Don’ts.

Hun Sen also called for the reduction of gatherings to ensure safety distancing, after he noted the increase of new infections after the Chinese-Vietnamese Lunar New Year, both in Cambodia and its neighbouring countries as well as in other ASEAN nations.

He however did not call for a halt to these gatherings.

The Prime Minister expressed his concern over the possible spread of Omicron from Phnom Penh capital to the provinces as in the case of Delta and Alpha.

He therefore ordered the reinforcement of preventive measures at high-risk areas such as nightclubs, and suggested to limit the number of attendees at weddings, religious gatherings and so on.

“This is not a setback, but we do it to prevent a possible catastrophe,” he underlined.

He  took the opportunity to once again encourage the people to get the basic doses and the booster doses of the COVID-19 vaccines, an issue which the Ministry of Health is taking seriously enough to consider a “No Jab No Job” policy as the vaccinations are key tools to protect their lives against the deadly virus. C. Nika – AKP

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