Cambodia’s COVID-19 Infection Rates Continue To Rise As 799 New Cases Confirmed

Cambodia’s COVID-19 Infection Rates Continue To Rise As 799 New Cases Confirmed

PHNOM PENH, Jun 18 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia registered 799 new COVID-19 cases today, bringing the national case tally to 41,581, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a statement.

The new infections included 702 local cases and 97 imported cases, the MoH said.

Fourteen more fatalities were recorded, taking the overall death toll to 394, the ministry said, adding that, 910 more patients recovered, raising the total number of recoveries to 35,940.

The Southeast Asian nation launched a COVID-19 inoculation drive on Feb 10.

To date, some 3.2 million, out of the 10 million targeted adult population have received their first vaccine doses, MoH’s secretary of state and spokeswoman, Or Vandine said, adding that, 2.64 million of them have been fully vaccinated with two doses.– NNN-AKP

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