The Ministry of Interior’s General Department of Prisons (GDP) is preparing a letter to the Ministry of Health urging the capital-provincial administrations to coordinate their intervention in the prisons within their territories due to the high rate of Covid-19 positive test results within those facilities.
The Ministry of Social Affairs, Veterans and Youth Rehabilitation is set to open a youth rehabilitation centre in Kandal province in the third quarter of this year with the initial step of transferring about 300 juvenile offenders from prison to the facility.
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Officers supervise a checkpoint on National Road 6 in Bak Kheng commune of Phnom Penh’s Chroy Changvar district on Wednesday. Hong Menea
Travel ban has trouble-free start
Wed, 7 April 2021
In contrast to the travel ban imposed around Khmer New Year in 2020, this year only a small number of people tried to beat the deadline and leave Phnom Penh for their hometown after the government banned unnecessary inter-provincial travel for 14-days, according to several provincial officials.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on April 6 ordered a temporary ban on inter-provincial travel and the closure of all tourism, leisure and entertainment sites and venues throughout the country from April 7 to April 20 in order to curb the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak.