Cambodia’s February 20 Community Event COVID-19 cases soar to 137, bringing total tally to 633

For several weeks, Khmer Times has been highlighting the number of escapes from quarantine centres in the three provinces border Thailand as well as the lax security in Phnom Penh’s quarantine centres where corruption and lax security has seen quarantined people sun bathing at the hotel’s swimming pool, paying guards to leave the quarantine centres and return at a late time or even at a later date, which is the due date for the 13th day test.

Most of these reports went without any response from the authorities concerned or were denied.

Khmer Times says it is time for the military to take (over) from local or in house security guards to prevent yet another community outbreak.

xandreu wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:20 am I thought the last one in November would be difficult to control and resigned myself to the fact that that was going to be the 'big one' but I turned out to be wrong.

With many more people involved in this lastest outbreak, many more locations identified and the fact that the UK variant has been identified, which is much more transmissible, I have an even stronger feeling that this is going to be the 'big one' but I'm praying that I'm wrong again.

If you look at the first outbreak last year, the difference between the countries which suffered a lot and those that manged to escape the worst of it was contact tracing. Places like South Korea had a very robust contact tracing scheme in place very quickly and they managed to bring it under control. Countries like the UK, Italy, the US etc, did not, and they paid a huge price.

It does seem to me that Cambodia recognises the imortance of contact tracing to bring it under control, and credit where it's due, it's appears that it was this that helped them deal with the November outbreak. If media reports are to be believed (I'm not much of a conspiacy theorist and generally believe the narrative until something comes along to prove otherwise) they do seem to making a big effort to contact trace and isolate. I suspect that they are getting a lot of help and guidence from the WHO.

Let's just pray that this is enough to bring this latest outbreak under control. A large outbreak here would be utterly, utterly devastating. More so than almost any other country.

Where are those damn vaccines????

Phnom Poon wrote: ↑Wed Feb 24, 2021 9:08 am

Khmer Times says it is time for the military to take (over) from local or in house security guards to prevent yet another community outbreak.

good cop, bad cop routine