Cambodia's COVID-19 death toll tops 2,000 with 20 new fatalities

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 9 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's death toll from COVID-19 has risen to 2,007 on Thursday after 20 new fatalities were reported, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement. The kingdom also confirmed 589 new infections including 148 imported cases, pushing the national total caseload to 97,524, the ministry said, adding that additional 480 patients recovered, taking the total number of recoveries to 92,495.

The Southeast Asian nation launched a COVID-19 inoculation drive in February, targeting to vaccinate 12 million people, or 75 percent of the kingdom's 16-million population by the end of this year. Most of the vaccines used in the kingdom's immunization program are from China's Sinovac and Sinopharm.

MoH's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said some 11.36 million people, or 71 percent of the total population, have received at least one vaccine dose, while 9.16 million, or 57 percent, have received both required doses and 710,730 have received a third dose or booster dose. "As of Sept. 8, some 96.6 percent of the 10 million targeted adults and 86.3 percent of the nearly 2 million targeted adolescents aged 12-17 had taken at least one vaccine dose," she said in a report.

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