Thai Embassy to the aid of Cambodian migrant workers in Battambang province

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The Royal Thai Government realises the plight of Cambodian migrant workers who have returned to Cambodia due to the Covid-19 situation. As Cambodian migrant workers are among the main driving forces of the Thai economy, the Royal Thai government attaches great importance to the provision of good care both to those who still stay in Thailand and the ones who are now back in Cambodia.

 

The 26 July, 2021 donation of PPE, surgical masks, food and other necessary consumer goods is one of our initiatives to contribute to re-turning Cambodian migrant workers being quarantined at quarantine centres in Battambang province.

 

Mr. Jirawuth Suwanna-Arj, Minister Counsellor for Commercial Affairs of the Royal Thai Embassy, led a delegation of Embassy officers and executives of the Thai private sector in Cambodia to donate the said items worth more than USD7,500 in total to the Governor of Battambang, His Excellency Mr. Nguon Rattanak, to distribute to Cambodian migrant workers under quarantine.

 

read more https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50902843/thai-embassy-to-the-aid-of-cambodian-migrant-workers-in-battambang-province/

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Our great journalist do it again with heading "BONE" of contention should be "BANE". Common mistake made by people Journos should know better.  

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51 minutes ago, Paul Henry said:

Our great journalist do it again with heading "BONE" of contention should be "BANE". Common mistake made by people Journos should know better.  

Don't think so. Grammar police who don't know what they're talking about are the bane of my life, scrapping over a bone and losing it.

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Thai Embassy to the aid of Cambodian migrant workers in Battambang province .  

 

Where's the C19 Frozen Meat bit of News ?  

 

Ok I found it Mr Google got it.

 

Bone of contention: C-19 find on frozen imported meat sparks controversy

Tith Kongnov / Khmer Times 

Samples of the imported buffalo meat which were sent for laboratory testing. Facebook

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The Ministry of Health yesterday announced the discovery of Covid-19 traces on frozen buffalo meat, imported from India, from three out of five containers.

However, the exporters have refuted this finding saying meat samples underwent testing in advanced labs in India and they were all found to be SARS-COV-2-negative.

They also questioned how Covid-19 can lay dormant and live for the almost three months it takes for the meat to be shipped from India, when there is no scientific evidence that the virus can survive for so long on surfaces.

The Health Ministry said it conducted a virological analysis virus on five containers of frozen buffalo meat at the Tri-Khod dry port in Phnom Penh.

It said the frozen buffalo meat was imported by two companies Bovini Food Co Ltd and Ashary Investment & Construction.

After the discovery of buffalo meat containing the virus, Kun Nhim, Director General of Customs and Excise of Cambodia, said that the two companies are cooperating with a joint working group to destroy the meat in accordance with the procedures in force.

In a statement obtained by Khmer Times, the two Indian exporters said they had tested samples of the buffalo meat in ISO 17025 accredited labs in India and they were all found to be free from the virus.

In view of the conflicting results in India and Cambodia, the Indian exporters, through the Embassy of India and their importers in Cambodia, have requested the Ministry of Health and the Adhoc Covid-19 Committee to retest  fresh samples from the same containers to reconfirm the test results and if possible conduct testing in an advanced lab in Singapore.

They said any finding of a genome is not an indication of an active virus since the containers left India in April 2021 and reached Cambodia in July 2021.

It said that there is no scientific evidence to prove that Covid-19 virus can survive on food and food packaging material for a period of almost three months.

Covid-19 is a respiratory illness primarily transmitted through person-to-person contact. There is no evidence to date of viruses, that cause respiratory illnesses, can be transmitted via food or food packaging.

As per World Health Organisation (WHO), there is no evidence that the virus that causes Covid-19 spreads to people through food.

International Meat Secretariat (IMS), Paris has also confirmed that there is no evidence that Covid-19 can be spread through contact with food or food packaging.  Coronaviruses need a live animal or human host to multiply and survive and cannot multiply on the surface of food packages.

To date, no other country in the world has ever reported coronavirus in frozen food or its packaging/or surface. All available information suggests that it is absolutely not possible for the virus to transfer through frozen food. Stringent protocol and Good Management Practices at the highest level is implemented by the Indian exporters to produce and export quality meat.

Dr Hok Kim Cheng, the Ministry of Health’s technical director-general, and Health Ministry spokeswoman Or Vandine could not be reached for comment yesterday.