Sihanoukville’s Jin Bei Casino allowed to reopen as Cambodian COVID outbreak spreads
Tuesday 16 March 2021 at 05:51

The governor of Preah Sihanouk, Kuoch Chamroeun, has granted permission for three hotspots in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, including Jin Bei Casino and Hotel, to resume normal operations.

All three branches of Jin Bei Hotel as well as Jin Bei Casino and Hotel were closed down in late February after two positive cases of COVID-19 among Chinese guests were detected.

Inside Asian Gaming reported at the time that Jin Bei Casino and Hotel had been surrounded by police and locked down, with staff and players essentially trapped inside. A total of 32 locations across the city were subsequently designated as hotspots and another 19 as quarantine facilities, however Chamroeun lifted some of those on Sunday, with Jin Bei among them, according to a report by The Khmer Times.

There is, however, increasing concern over an outbreak of COVID-19 that continues to rapidly spread across the country. Cambodian Prime Minister HE on Monday issued a ban on all public gatherings, including weddings and religious rituals, after two men separately defied isolation orders and attended weddings in Kampot and Takeo. Both subsequently tested positive for COVID-19.

Having initially kept the global pandemic largely at bay, Cambodia is now in the midst of its first major outbreak with around 900 cases linked to the cluster and almost 60 new cases reported up to 9pm Monday night. The outbreak is said to have started when four Chinese nationals bribed their way out of a quarantine hotel on 20 February and visited a series of nightclubs. Two of those Chinese nationals later tested positive for COVID-19.

Phnom Penh integrated resort NagaWorld remains closed after suspending operations earlier this month when 11 staff members tested positive to COVID-19 as part of a mass testing regime implemented by the company.
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samrong01 wrote:I have been advised by my correspondent in India that all postal services are suspended to Cambodia until further notice. I do not know if this applies only to India or the whole world but I suspect it will be the whole world. For some people who depend on medicine from India this could be a death sentence.

Complete horseshit. Why would incoming/outgoing parcels be stopped to Cambodia? India has like 20k new cases per day. Yes, totally legit source...

The post office closed when covid first started so it would be no surprise if they have closed it again

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:28 pm

samrong01 wrote:I have been advised by my correspondent in India that all postal services are suspended to Cambodia until further notice. I do not know if this applies only to India or the whole world but I suspect it will be the whole world. For some people who depend on medicine from India this could be a death sentence.

Complete horseshit. Why would incoming/outgoing parcels be stopped to Cambodia? India has like 20k new cases per day. Yes, totally legit source...

My correspondent forwarded to me the official announcement from the Indian Post Office. Its amazing how easily you dismiss anything you see online yet you are willing to believe the constant lies told to you by the government. Why would they be stopped? For the same reason its not possible to send stuff to Vietnam - because the government has completely lost its mind.

samrong01 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 6:29 pm

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:28 pm

samrong01 wrote:I have been advised by my correspondent in India that all postal services are suspended to Cambodia until further notice. I do not know if this applies only to India or the whole world but I suspect it will be the whole world. For some people who depend on medicine from India this could be a death sentence.

Complete horseshit. Why would incoming/outgoing parcels be stopped to Cambodia? India has like 20k new cases per day. Yes, totally legit source...

My correspondent forwarded to me the official announcement from the Indian Post Office. Its amazing how easily you dismiss anything you see online yet you are willing to believe the constant lies told to you by the government. Why would they be stopped? For the same reason its not possible to send stuff to Vietnam - because the government has completely lost its mind.

Why not share the official announcement if you have it?

samrong01 wrote:

Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 5:28 pm

samrong01 wrote:I have been advised by my correspondent in India that all postal services are suspended to Cambodia until further notice. I do not know if this applies only to India or the whole world but I suspect it will be the whole world. For some people who depend on medicine from India this could be a death sentence.

Complete horseshit. Why would incoming/outgoing parcels be stopped to Cambodia? India has like 20k new cases per day. Yes, totally legit source...

My correspondent forwarded to me the official announcement from the Indian Post Office. Its amazing how easily you dismiss anything you see online yet you are willing to believe the constant lies told to you by the government. Why would they be stopped? For the same reason its not possible to send stuff to Vietnam - because the government has completely lost its mind.

Ah, well if it's only India maybe. I also totally agree that governments worldwide have lost their minds, but it's still an odd thing to do. I thought you mean the Cambodian post office would just close and not take any incoming packages.

Three days back (March 13) I asked a friend in India to check whether a credit card could be send by post from India to Cambodia.

This is his reply after inquiring at the local post office:

Credit card can be send by post, no problem, but no postal service to Cambodia right now, Thailand would be possible.

Never ending nonsense this,
until everyone is vaccinated it don't look like anything will be back to normal,
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50825579/b ... -outbreak/

DaveG wrote: ↑Tue Mar 16, 2021 7:56 pm Never ending nonsense this,
until everyone is vaccinated it don't look like anything will be back to normal,
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50825579/b ... -outbreak/

But three hotels/casinos in Sihanoukville have reopened, so there's hope!

HE says "stay at home":
PM urges against travel to stave off transmissions as Covid cases soar

Mom Kunthear | Publication date 16 March 2021 | 22:22 ICT

Prime Minister HE urged the public to refrain from non-essential travel, or wear a mask at all times otherwise, to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus which he said is circulating largely undetected.

The appeal comes as the Ministry of Health set a new one-day record for Covid-19 infections with 105 confirmed cases on March 16, all of which were linked to the February 20 community outbreak.
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... cases-soar