Today Cambodia is 78% fully vaccinated — compared to 58% in the United States.
The Health Ministry reported 52 new COVID-19 cases Monday and five deaths, bringing Cambodia's total to 119,588 cases and 2,872 fatalities since the start of the pandemic.
The program beginning Nov. 30 will allow visitors who are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus to skip being quarantined if they stay at least five days in designated areas, the Tourism Ministry announced.
Cambodia already has been vaccinating older children, and Hun Sen said he ordered health officials to study if children ages 3 to 5 can also be vaccinated.
Hun Sen said that without Beijing, Cambodia would not be able to upgrade infrastructure or vaccinate millions of people against COVID-19.
Ho Chi Minh City last month deployed troops to enforce its lockdown and prohibited residents from leaving their homes to slow a spiraling rate of deaths. Just 3% of Vietnam's 98 million population has been fully vaccinated.
Australia’s federal health minister, Greg Hunt, says he hopes most injections will be given by the end of the year.
Since going live in mid-July, jitasa.care has seen well over 10,000 households sign on, seeking assistance for everything from food to oxygen to an urgent ride to the hospital, most of them in the capital, Bangkok.
Around five million people had been given at least one dose of a vaccine as of Tuesday, with 1.7 million people fully vaccinated in Phnom Penh.
The spike in cases comes as Phnom Penh health officials announced that more than 99 percent of the capital’s adult population, around 1.7 million residents, were fully vaccinated.
Other countries have considered or are already giving booster shots to supplement existing vaccines, especially the Chinese-made vaccines.
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