PCR Covid-19 tests and accompanying certificates will be available from February 18 at just $50 nationwide for Cambodians and foreigners travelling abroad who may need them, according to Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng.

In a February 17 letter, Bun Heng affirmed that laboratories have been authorised to certify results of these Covid tests in the capital and “provinces across the country”.

Health ministry statistics show that 95.44 per cent of Cambodia's estimated 16 million population had been vaccinated with at least one Covid-19 dose as of February 16.

Broken down by age groups, the rate for the 18 and older is 103.87 per cent of the targeted 10 million population, and subsequently: ages 12-17 (101.29%; 1,827,348), ages 6-11 (110.72%; 1,897,382), age 5 (142.26%; 304,317), ages 3-4 (81.65%; 610,730).