IraHayes wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:13 am

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 9:05 am On a personal note, a woman was taken from my building yesterday in an ambulance - a Covid-19 case.

My building is a shophouse type, with 3 buildings of 3 storeys all sharing one communal internal staircase.

In the morning there was double tape across the street, but it was unmanned. I thought it was a traffic control measure. I found out at 1pm that a woman had tested positive and lived in the building, on my floor.

Nobody sealed off the building or made any contact and I was free to come and go at will but I was fully prepared for a visit. At 6.30pm an ambulance arrived and took the woman away with the whole street watching the spectacle. At 7.30pm a cleaning crew turned up with their back-pack spraying machines and sprayed all the internals of the building. They also spoke to the immediate neighbour of the infected person. Fortunately the apartment in question is as far away as possible from me, but it's still way too close for comfort. I waited for the 8pm curfew to arrive - maybe they catch everyone after 8pm - but nothing.

At the time of writing nobody has knocked on my door to inform me, to test me or to impose any restrictions. There are no notices posted on my door. I am yet to venture into the street but I assume I am free to leave (I will find out soon enough). This is in stark contrast to condo's that were all locked up when this outbreak began and I am extremely surprised (and relieved) at the lack of contact.

Maybe they really have run out of resources and simply haven't got the manpower to try and lockdown a small building; I seriously hope that remains the case.

Informative and detailed.

This is what people crave... information.

As to your conclusion. I think you are correct, they don't have the resources to lock down a shop house style building.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:41 am They've given up on the idea of testing everyone in the Red Zones. It took a day or so for them to crunch the numbers.

We knew right away it would be impossible, the numbers involved divided by the spare testing capacity doomed this from the beginning. It really does shine a light on the calibre of persons at very high levels.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration has also revised its compulsory Covid-19 testing requirement for all residents in the red zones – where residents are forbidden from leaving their homes – just one day after its earlier announcement which mandated testing for everyone and raised the threat of legal actions against anyone who failed to comply.

According to the new instructions released on April 24, now only those who have had contact with infected patients or are living in high-risk areas have to be tested.

“Testing in the red zone is now required for those who have had direct and indirect contact with Covid-19 patients, those who live the areas with a high number of positive cases, those who have temperatures, a cough, sneezing, difficulty breathing or anyone else who thinks that they may have contracted the virus,” municipal governor Khuong Sreng said in the new directive.

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... 9-patients

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:41 am They've given up on the idea of testing everyone in the Red Zones. It took a day or so for them to crunch the numbers.

We knew right away it would be impossible, the numbers involved divided by the spare testing capacity doomed this from the beginning. It really does shine a light on the calibre of persons at very high levels.

The Phnom Penh Municipal Administration has also revised its compulsory Covid-19 testing requirement for all residents in the red zones – where residents are forbidden from leaving their homes – just one day after its earlier announcement which mandated testing for everyone and raised the threat of legal actions against anyone who failed to comply.

According to the new instructions released on April 24, now only those who have had contact with infected patients or are living in high-risk areas have to be tested.

“Testing in the red zone is now required for those who have had direct and indirect contact with Covid-19 patients, those who live the areas with a high number of positive cases, those who have temperatures, a cough, sneezing, difficulty breathing or anyone else who thinks that they may have contracted the virus,” municipal governor Khuong Sreng said in the new directive.

https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/ ... 9-patients

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 8:41 am It really does shine a light on the calibre of persons at very high levels.

Josideb wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 3:22 pm all systems go on Wednesday?

Phnom Poon wrote: ↑Mon Apr 26, 2021 6:26 pm i think it's thursday anyway, 14 days includes wednesday

it looks like they might extend, but with new zones

PP Post: Govt Mulls Extension

the filthy workers will probably remain red zones
but leafier quarters might be orange or yellow with fewer restrictions
or perhaps even green/lockdown-free

attended the inter-ministerial meeting to review a decision on the extension of lockdown for Phnom Penh and Takmao twon