Cambodia has vaccinated 73.91 percent of its 16 million population against COVID-19

[geovalin]

Cambodia has vaccinated a total of 11,826,416 people against COVID-19 with at least one dose of the vaccine. These comprise 9,821,667 adults aged 18 and above, 1,727,063 adolescents aged 12 to 17 and 276,686 children aged six to 12 since the first campaign involving adults started on February 10, the second campaign starting on August 1 and the third campaign starting on September 17.

 

The fourth phase which started in early August and involving a third booster dose of the vaccine for the front line workers and selected segment of the population and now slated to be open for the general public in October has seen a total of 823,836 receiving the booster dose. The campaign for providing booster doses for the general public will kick off in October and will begin with Phnom Penh and the province of Kandal and then to other provinces, Prime Minister Hun Sen last Friday.

 

The World Health Organization has in August asked countries to hold off on boosters until at least the end of September, by which time it hopes at least 10 percent of every country’s population will be vaccinated. However, individual countries weighed their own options and decisions to administer the third booster dose was driven by realities on the ground.

 

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[Paradise Pete]

How's the quality of healthcare in Cambodia? I've been waiting to get back to Thailand to make the rounds of the doctors (cardiologist, urologist, dermatologist, etc (yes I'm old)), but that might take a while.