Cambodia continued to show positive trajectory in combatting the COVID-19 pandemic with no new cases reported for the 12th straight day.
In addition, no new recoveries were also reported for the second consecutive day.
This leaves the total number of recorded COVID-19 positive cases at 112.
The number of recovered cases stays at 110 or slightly above 90 percent recovery rate out of 122 patients.
The last positive cases were reported on April 12, when a 24-year-old Vietnamese female and her 50-year-old Canadian Chinese male were tested positive.
The last recoveries were reported on April 21.
The 122 positive cases comprise 51 Cambodians, 40 French, 13 Malaysians, five British, three Chinese, three Vietnamese, two Americans, two Indonesians, two Canadians, and one Belgian. Most of the cases are imported ones.
The 110 recoveries comprise one Chinese, five British, two Americans, one Belgian, 38 French, two Canadians, 12 Malaysians, two Indonesians, one Vietnamese and 46 Cambodians.
A COVID-19 Task Force source told Khmer Times on conditions of anonymity that it was too early to celebrate and that it was disturbing and unnerving to see people resorting to their old habits of not practicing social distancing and being out in throngs.
“Out of the estimated 86,000 migrant workers from Thailand, only 400 have been tested and there are still up to 200 migrant workers returning to Cambodia. In addition, the thousands of garment and other factory workers who had returned to their provinces over the Khmer New Year period are also of concern,” the sources said.
A Health Ministry official has said that Cambodia is still in the phase of the pandemic and that there was quite a way to go before any declarations can be made.
The first COVID-19 positive case was recorded on January 27 with a Chinese infection with the following case recorded more than a month later on March 7 with a Cambodian being tested positive. He had come into contact with a Japanese national who was infected and was detained in a Japanese airport on arrival there.
The Government urges strict vigilance and stringent adherence to social distancing as this, they said, was the only way they could bring the pandemic under control and step by step return life to normal.
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