The Ministry of Health of Cambodia on Saturday (July 3) reported 36 new deaths. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN PHNOM PENH, July 3 (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): The Cambodian Ministry of Health on Saturday reported another 948 Covid-19 cases, 44 of which were imported.
The ministry also reported 36 new deaths and 615 recoveries.
As of July 3, Cambodia had recorded a total of 53,298 Covid-19 cases with 46,123 recoveries and 696 fatalities
The Ministry of Health has also announced that 11 more cases of the Delta variant of Covid-19, also known as B.1.617.2, have been detected in Cambodian migrant workers returning from Thailand through border checkpoints.
The latest cases added to the 23 cases the ministry recorded in June – 12 on June 25, seven on June 19 and three on June 4 – bringing the total to 33.
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Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng issued a directive instructing all municipal and provincial governors to strictly enforce quarantine on the borders and implement other administrative measures to prevent the spread of the new Delta variant of Covid-19.
The directive came after at least 10 cases of the Delta variant, first discovered in India, were detected this month in migrant workers returning from Thailand through border checkpoints.
Bun Heng, who is also head of the inter-ministerial commission for combating Covid-19, said quarantines at designated centres along the borders have to be strictly enforced for all inbound travellers to Cambodia.
Transportation of all travellers and migrant workers to their hometowns for quarantine has been paused, he noted in the directive dated June 25.