PHNOM PENH, May 21 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia will start offering a fifth dose of COVID-19 vaccines to priority groups from June 9, Prime Minister, Samdech Techo Hun Sen, said.
The priority groups include leaders of the government, the senate, the parliament, frontline health workers, government officials, civil servants, armed forces, the elderly, staff of embassies, national and international organisations, journalists, and celebrities.
He said, the interval between the fourth and the fifth doses is at least three months.
“Vaccines have not only played a critical role in preventing deaths and infections, but also help prevent other infectious diseases such as flu,” Hun Sen said in a voice message.
Meanwhile, the prime minister said, the country has reported no new cases of COVID-19 for 14 days straight, and there are only eight active cases in the kingdom.
Cambodia has so far inoculated at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccines to 15 million people, or 93.8 percent of its 16 million population, the health ministry said, adding that, of them, 14.27 million, or 89 percent, have been fully vaccinated with two required shots.
Also, some nine million, or 56.2 percent, have got a third dose, and 2.3 million, or 14.4 percent, have had a fourth dose.
Buoyed by its high vaccination rates, Cambodia resumed all socioeconomic activities and reopened its borders to fully vaccinated travellers, without quarantine since Nov, last year.
