PHNOM PENH: Spiralling COVID-19 cases have put Cambodia"on the brink of death", its premier Hun Sen has warned, as the country imposed lockdowns in the capital Phnom Penh and a nearby city.
The Southeast Asian kingdom has seen COVID-19 cases surge since February, when an outbreak was first detected among its Chinese expatriate community.Authorities said last week that hospitals in Phnom Penh were running out of beds and that they had transformed schools and wedding party halls into treatment centres, while Hun Sen threatened quarantine-breakers with jail time.
Phnom Penh and adjacent city Ta Khmau were on Wednesday night placed under lockdown for two weeks to curb the spread, effectively halting the movement of more than two million people. "Please my people - join your efforts to end this dangerous event," pled premier Hun Sen in a recorded address aired on state-run television late Wednesday night.
"We are on the brink of death already," he said."If we don't join hands together, we will head to real death."
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