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2021-04-04 13:36:01 GMT2021-04-04 21:36:01(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
PHNOM PENH, April 4 (Xinhua) Cambodia on Sunday recorded 44 new confirmed cases of COVID-19, raising its total tally to 2,689, said a Ministry of Health (MoH) statement.
The new infections included one imported case and 43 local cases, with 25 of them reported in capital Phnom Penh, 17 in Preah Sihanouk province and one in Svay Rieng province, the statement said.
The imported case was a 46-year-old Pakistani traveller arriving in the kingdom on March 21 from South Korea, the statement said, adding that she was confirmed to have the virus in her second test on the 13th day of quarantine.
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PM makes donation of 250k masks
Mon, 22 February 2021
Phnom Penh municipal authorities are distributing 252,500 cloth face masks to the public in 14 districts and at 25 market locations after obtaining the masks from Prime Minister Hun Sen following the outbreak of Covid-19 community transmission in the capital on February 20.
According to the municipal hall, each district received 10,000 masks and each market received 4,500 masks.
Chbar Ampov district governor Cheng Monyra said on February 22 that he had met with his commune chiefs to give advice on using the QR Code system for contact tracing and to plan the distribution of the masks.
“We announced the use of the QR Code technology for preventing Covid-19 spread and then we distributed the masks to commune halls,” he said.