Phnom Penh (VNA) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen hasannounced new measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and its new Deltavariant including temporarily closing border gates to Vietnam and Thailand.
In an address on July 1, Hun Sen ordered authorities to strengthen the monitoring of all arrivals into theKingdom via land, waterways and air.
In addition, he told forces guarding the border to conduct rapid COVID-19 tests onall arrivals without exception,saying that testing,especially rapid tests at the border, continued to be extremely important.
He saidrelevant authorities must properly prepare locations for more quarantinecentres and strengthen the supply of medical equipment in areas along theborder, especially in the provinces bordering Thailand.
Hun Sen asked allhealth officials in provinces to ensure that patients testing positive to the Delta variant are treated in separate facilities and isolated in quarantine centres for 21 days.
In June alone, Cambodia detected 22 cases of Delta and Delta Plus variants of the coronavirus among Cambodian workers returning from Thailand./.