On the morning of June 9, the Bo Senchi District Government of Phnom Penh City (Cambodia) decided to temporarily close the Kunzhou Garment Factory due to the discovery of 302 confirmed cases.
According to the deputy head of the district, 302 people were diagnosed with COVID-19 through sampling and testing of 3,880 employees at the factory. Currently, the government has temporarily closed the factory and a nearby market to prevent the epidemic from spreading further.
According to the landlord, on the evening of June 8, the local government placed roadblocks around the Kunzhou Garment Factory to implement closure measures. That night, many workers living near Kunzhou Garment Factory packed up their things and left the rental houses where they lived.
It is understood that at least 40% of workers have fled from rental housing.
A worker revealed that the reason why everyone quietly left the rental house was that they could not bear to live in a closed place because they could not go out to shop or go to work. Moreover, at present, Kunzhou Garment Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The factory has been closed and employees have not been paid wages, so they can only leave first.
In order to control the epidemic, the Phnom Penh Municipal Government decided on June 9 to classify the area where the workers are located as a medium-risk orange zone for the epidemic, including Bosen Chi District Parts of Baipingbei 2 Village, Tebenbodhi Village and Zunbuwan 2 Village in Zongzhou 3 subdivision for 14 days.
201 people at the Aeon Garment Factory in Phnom Penh were diagnosed.
On June 10, the Hun Sen Young Volunteer Doctors Association (TYDA) conducted nucleic acid tests on 947 workers at Yongwang Garment Factory (Y&W) and found that 201 workers were diagnosed with COVID-19. .
At present, all patients have been arranged to Diamond Island and Duopengluo Medical Center for treatment. The remaining undiagnosed workers must be quarantined at home for 14 days.
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According to local media reports, the incident occurred at approximately 19:40 on the evening of June 9 in the Lango District of Phnom Penh, the capital.
The district government reported that the authorities required more than 1,000 workers at the Fengcheng Shoe Factory to undergo coronavirus testing, but the workers refused to cooperate and fled from the factory one after another, causing commotion.
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The report shows that due to The on-site medical staff claimed that two tests must be completed before the test certificate could be stamped, which made some workers dissatisfied and instigated the rest to leave the testing site.
The authorities are worried about the spread of the epidemic and are making every effort to recruit workers for re-testing.
Previously, many confirmed cases in Cambodia entered from Guangzhou and Xiamen.
On the 11th, according to the Fujian Health Commission:
From 0 to 24:00 on June 10, Fujian Province reported new overseas There were 3 imported confirmed cases (1 case was confirmed from an asymptomatic infection), including 1 imported case from Argentina (reported by Fuzhou City) and 2 imported cases from Cambodia (reported by Xiamen City).
At the same time, the Guangdong Health Commission released:
From 0-24:00 on June 10, 9 new local cases were reported in the province All confirmed cases were reported in Guangzhou.
The province has 1 new imported confirmed case, reported by Guangzhou, from Cambodia; and 1 confirmed case from an imported asymptomatic infection, reported by Guangzhou, from Cambodia.
WHO experts:
Cambodia must take preventive measures seriously
Otherwise, it will trigger large-scale virus transmission
At the end of April this year, Cambodia first discovered the “B.1.617” mutated new coronavirus infection case reported in India. Until the beginning of June, three more cases of infection with the “B.1.617” mutated virus were discovered in the country, all of which were imported from Thailand.
Cambodia has banned direct or transit passenger flights from India.Tourists with travel history to India within three weeks are prohibited from entering the country on a first-class basis.
So far, a total of 36,666 cases have been diagnosed nationwide, a total of 29,807 cases have been cured, and a total of 300 deaths have been reported.
Dr. Li Ailan, the World Health Organization representative in Cambodia, said:
“Some people did not take precautions seriously after receiving the COVID-19 vaccine. Sexual health measures because they think they are already safe.”
Dr. Li warned that in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic, people must still strictly abide by epidemic prevention regulations, otherwise it will trigger large-scale virus transmission . </p
