Hun Sen orders end to border quarantine for some returnees

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Prime Minister Hun Sen yesterday ordered an end  to quarantine at the Cambodia-Thailand border as the situation of COVID-19 community transmission in the neighbouring country is now under control. In an audio message, he said the new move concerns those with normal health conditions, but those with suspected symptoms are not allowed to travel inside the country and need to remain quarantined at the border.

 

“We do not abandon quarantine, just convert from a large-scale one at the border to respective villages, communes and provinces,” Mr Hun Sen said, advising all  provinces to set up their quarantine centres. According to the Prime Minister, more than 15,000 people are in quarantine at the border and about half of them live in nearby provinces. Therefore, it is not difficult to transport them back home.

 

Meanwhile, Health Minister Mam Bun Heng said yesterday that the Great Duke hotel was turned into the treatment centre for mild COVID-19 patients. He said that the use of the Great Duke as a treatment centre makes it convenient for the Ministry of Health to mobilise necessary human resources, equipment and techniques to save lives in timely response and to stem the virus spread in the community.

 

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