A hospital statement said the death was not linked to the Sinopharm vaccine and that Seang Tola passed away due to a heart attack.
The Health Ministry on Thursday reported 28 new infections linked to the February 20 cluster, with Preah Sihanouk reporting a total of 80 cases since the start of the outbreak.
A worker at Phnom Penh’s Y&W Garment Factory tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Tuesday.
Government denies doses of Chinese-made vaccine are available as it bans return of Angkor Times publisher.
A new COVID-19 cluster, which was detected over the weekend, has spread beyond Phnom Penh, with the World Health Organization warning that a “larger scale” outbreak could overrun Cambodia’s health care infrastructure.
“Foreigners will be expelled from the Kingdom of Cambodia and will never be allowed to return,” read a letter issued by a COVID-19 inter-ministry commission and signed by Prime Minister Hun Sen on February 22.
The Health Ministry reported 31 new cases of COVID-19 on Monday, a cluster that it refers to as the “February 20 event.”
The B1.1.7 variant, first found in Britain, is highly transmissible and its discovery prompted a tightening of travel restrictions globally among countries keen to keep it at bay.
The World Health Organization has not provided any comments on the use of the Sinopharm vaccine or Cambodia’s decision to accept the shots from China.
Frontline medical workers, security personnel, and journalists are among the 300,000 people who will be inoculated in this first phase of vaccinations.
Hun Manet, the head of the army and Hun Sen's eldest son, urged all Cambodians to be vaccinated and thanked China for the donation.
Cambodian couple Leang Phannara and Kim Bethyliza were elated when they could finally wed last Friday after the latest easing of coronavirus restrictions in the country.
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