Bursting at the seams: Quarantine centres nearing full capacity with returnees

[geovalin]

SAMRAONG, Oddar Meanchey – The continuing deluge of Cambodian returnees from Thailand has compelled Oddar Meanchey and Battambang provinces to look for additional venues for quarantine and or building additional ones. Oddar Meanchey’s 17 quarantine centres are at full capacity and as a result, three new centres have been added, bringing the total in that province to 20.

 

Between 150 to 400 Cambodians are crossing the Chong Chom border in Thailand’s Surin province through O’Smach international border checkpoint daily. Dy Rado, deputy governor of Oddar Meanchey province told Khmer Times that  December 21 last year, when the outbreak of COVID-19 in Thailand spiked, to January 8 this year, up to 15,000 Cambodians have crossed the border back into Cambodia and straight to the various quarantine centres.

 

“Many of our earlier 17 centres are at full capacity and as such, we have opened three additional facilities to cater to incoming returnees. We fear more numbers will cross the border closer toward Khmer New Year. “We are also looking at the practicality of building new centres if the situation continues to worsen as the current 20 centres are also nearing full capacity.  The government has provided a budget of $195,000 for the additional quarantine centres along with 4,000 essential kits comprising blankets, pillows, mats and other basic essentials.”

 

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[Cake Monster]

Thats an awful lot of Cambodian People leaving Thailand.

The Thais will have to build their own Condos now I guess.

[bangon04]

On 2/10/2021 at 8:37 AM, Cake Monster said:

Thats an awful lot of Cambodian People leaving Thailand.

The Thais will have to build their own Condos now I guess.

just get more Burmese to take their places...... no ploplem