Active COVID cases rise again for Cambodia as new cases reported

After enjoying almost 2 months of being COVID free, official figures released today show that, for the 16th day in a row, Cambodia has recorded yet more new COVID cases. Today’s official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) was 16, bringing the COVID case total to 136,390 cases. Cambodia announced 0 new deaths, bringing the total to 3,056 direct deaths from COVID-19 in Cambodia.

The Kingdom recorded 16 new community and 0 new imported cases of the new variant. There are now 76 active COVID cases (diagnosed by PCR test) in The Kingdom. There was dispiriting news yesterday from the Ministry of Health that two Omicron ‘spinoffs’, the dominant subvariants of the Covid-19 virus, BA.5 and BA.4, have snuck into Cambodia.

The Ministry is sounding the alarm bell for all to take extra precautions or suffer severe consequences. The variants were detected after laboratory tests on 84 cases that were reported in the two weeks from June 28 after a respite of two months without cases, said Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine.

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