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Covid-19: Cambodia takes drastic measures against the first wave

2021-04-28T08:23:01.669Z


A year after the rest of the planet, the kingdom, which lacks health infrastructure, is in turn struck by the virus.


Fighting action in Cambodia.

A year after the rest of the world, the Southeast Asian country is facing a particularly worrying first wave of community contagion from Covid-19.

Every day for the past two months, cases have numbered in the hundreds, now reaching a total of more than 10,000 contaminations and 79 deaths.

These figures are ridiculous compared to the situation in other countries, but unprecedented in the kingdom of 15.5 million inhabitants, where health infrastructure is sorely lacking.

In response, the government has taken drastic measures in recent weeks.

With one and only goal: to avoid runaway.

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For ten days, Phnom Penh, the epicenter of the epidemic, has been living at the slower pace of its first confinement.

Only outings for shopping near home or for medical reasons are authorized.

Faced with the increase in cases in the capital, the authorities are constantly requisitioning the main places usually receiving

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Source: lefigaro

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