Mandatory quarantine to be enforced for all entering Cambodia

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How about for Cambodians arriving from overseas - do they get to do quarantine as well?
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Apexisto wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:34 pm
There was a reason to fly away from a country that cannot supply electricity for their common people on constant bases.
I haven't noticed any power cuts this year.
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John Bingham wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:37 pm
Apexisto wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 5:34 pm
There was a reason to fly away from a country that cannot supply electricity for their common people on constant bases.
I haven't noticed any power cuts this year.
That's because Cambodia almost doubled its electricity imports from Vietnam and Thailand (~16% in 2019 to a little over 30% this year).
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I shouldn't have posted that, had the first thunderstorm in about 6 months and now the power has gone out!
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God'sGift wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:07 pm How about for Cambodians arriving from overseas - do they get to do quarantine as well?
From what I understand, the Cambodian migrant workers returning home are a big concern to the health authorities, and I think that everyone arriving in Cambodia now is supposed to be quarantined or to self-isolate for 14 days. ( This is standard practice in most countries right now. Except for free countries like Sweden and Belarus :wink: , and maybe Turkmenistan.)

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Anchor Moy wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:25 pm
God'sGift wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:07 pm How about for Cambodians arriving from overseas - do they get to do quarantine as well?
From what I understand, the Cambodian migrant workers returning home are a big concern to the health authorities, and I think that everyone arriving in Cambodia now is supposed to be quarantined or to self-isolate for 14 days. ( This is standard practice in most countries right now. Except for free countries like Sweden and Belarus :wink: , and maybe Turkmenistan.)

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It was self isolate on the 7th according to Khmer Times. On the 8th it changed to official quarantine centres. It looks like they had a change of heart and didn't want all the returnees sodding of to their respective villages and infecting people.
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Doc67 wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 10:37 pm
Anchor Moy wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 7:25 pm
God'sGift wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:07 pm How about for Cambodians arriving from overseas - do they get to do quarantine as well?
From what I understand, the Cambodian migrant workers returning home are a big concern to the health authorities, and I think that everyone arriving in Cambodia now is supposed to be quarantined or to self-isolate for 14 days. ( This is standard practice in most countries right now. Except for free countries like Sweden and Belarus :wink: , and maybe Turkmenistan.)

newsworthy/information-coronavirus-camb ... ml#p411826
It was self isolate on the 7th according to Khmer Times. On the 8th it changed to official quarantine centres. It looks like they had a change of heart and didn't want all the returnees sodding of to their respective villages and infecting people.
A few weeks ago 15,000 (later read to be 50,000) khmers working in Thailand returned across the border and were sent back to their respective provinces to be monitored there coz they didn't have the testing and quarantine facilities to handle such a large volume.
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John Bingham wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2020 6:58 pm I shouldn't have posted that, had the first thunderstorm in about 6 months and now the power has gone out!
An early rainy season this year?

'Hope so, for the poor flockers locked up in a small steamy room in April.
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April 14, 2020
Mandatory self-quarantine for returning migrant workers must continue: Sar Kheng
Minister of Interior Sar Kheng yesterday called on local authorities to continue imposing mandatory 14-day self-quarantine for all inbound passengers coming from abroad, particularly migrant workers returning from Thailand, in a bid to prevent further spread of the coronavirus.

Speaking at an event at the Interior Ministry yesterday, Mr Kheng said: “We must continue to strictly enforce the government’s preventive and containment measures. Local authorities should continue tracking people coming in from foreign countries, especially the migrant workers, and impose compulsory quarantine on them for 14 days.”

He noted the Kingdom has had zero COVID-19 deaths since the global pandemic began and must be kept as such.
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Keep to the subject not interested in anyones freedoms being taken away ,
I'm interested in the latest news for traveler returning to Cambodia, does anyone know where/what the 14 day quarantine is or is it self quarantine at your home?
I also read somewhere in all these Corona threads about needing medical cert and insurance on returning to Cambodia, I'm hoping to return June as looking at flights they seem to be taking booking and hopefully airports opening for transfers :beer3:
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