clutchcargo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:32 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:18 pm ^^ Your name in the normal alphabet - John Doe ^^
Not your name like this - ចនដូ

Well that begs the question...is this form OK to be completed in either khmer and english? I mean it's already in khmer without an english one so who's to say any non khmer registrations will be accepted?

I can get Mrs Cargo to help of course but curious to know how you and @Doc67 @timmydownawell registered? English or Khmer?

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 8:32 pm

xandreu wrote: ↑Tue Mar 09, 2021 7:18 pm ^^ Your name in the normal alphabet - John Doe ^^
Not your name like this - ចនដូ

Well that begs the question...is this form OK to be completed in either khmer and english? I mean it's already in khmer without an english one so who's to say any non khmer registrations will be accepted?

I can get Mrs Cargo to help of course but curious to know how you and @Doc67 @timmydownawell registered? English or Khmer?

greenstripe99 wrote:A friend and I tried to get vaccinated today at Preah Ang Duong and Calmette.

At PAD they insisted that we had to have a letter from our embassy and refused us on those grounds. They have a sign about this posted at the entrance. We called the Australian Embassy who told us that this was not official policy and had never been discussed and that to their knowledge no embassy was issuing these letters. Furthermore they said that they certainly did not wish to get involved in even indirectly recommending medical treatments for anyone. They said that there was a lot of discussion between different embassies and the Ministry of Health on this issue and that it might be resolved sometime in the future.

At Calmette, we had a letter from our employer (in lieu of a letter frm the embassy) and we made it through the first checkpoint and were issued a number. However after 10 mins of waiting someone came and said that our Employer had to contact the hospital chief to arrange it rather than us turning up with Employer letters. When I asked who the chief was, they insisted that our boss would know him - in other words if you are not so well connected that you don't know the hospital chief then you are not going to get vaccinated.. sort of like "if you need to ask the price of some expensive watch, then you cant afford to buy it"

So at present there seems to be no clear path for foreigners like me to being vaccinated. Both these requirements are almost Catch 22s. But until the misinformation about embassy letters is cleared up, I am not sure that there is much to do.

Of course these things may change but I think until there is another official annuncement abut foreigner vaccinations, I don't think it's worth to go to either of these two hospitals. Plenty of Khmer were being vaccinated while we were waiting but with what vaccine I dont know. Most of these seemed to come in large groups from government offices.

xandreu wrote:What scares me, with all the locals getting vaccinated and foreigners not, is that being vaccinated does not stop you from catching it and spreading it around.

greenstripe99 wrote:A friend and I tried to get vaccinated today at Preah Ang Duong and Calmette.
So at present there seems to be no clear path for foreigners like me to being vaccinated. Both these requirements are almost Catch 22s. But until the misinformation about embassy letters is cleared up, I am not sure that there is much to do.

jah steu wrote:Being vaccinated does greatly reduce the chances of you developing an active infection, it reduces the chance of severe illness to virtually zero, and stops the risk of you dying.
So while it won’t stop transmission completely, it will reduce it a lot.

Brody wrote:

greenstripe99 wrote:A friend and I tried to get vaccinated today at Preah Ang Duong and Calmette.
So at present there seems to be no clear path for foreigners like me to being vaccinated. Both these requirements are almost Catch 22s. But until the misinformation about embassy letters is cleared up, I am not sure that there is much to do.

Classic Cambodian paper chase. Keep asking for this and that until you find the one thing the Westerner doesn't have then send them away.

The embassy thing seems like a red herring. It probably went down like this. "How do we get foreigners to stop showing up looking for vaccines? Ah, just tell them to go to their embassy for a "letter", that'll keep them busy and away for a while."