It is the second time King Norodom Sihamoni and Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk have made such contributions. Hean Rangsey
Queen Mother Norodom Monineath Sihanouk and King Norodom Sihamoni have donated $1 million each to the National Committee to Fight Covid-19.
It is the second time they have made contributions since the pandemic started.
The Queen Mother and the King sent a message to Prime Minister Hun Sen, the chairman of the committee, highlighting that their second contribution is to support activities to prevent and stop the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
The Queen Mother and the King both donated $300,000 to the committee in March.
Hun Sen has previously said funds the government receives from donors and not spent will go to the Kantha Bopha IV Children’s Hospital.
The Ministry of Health on Wednesday announced that a 21-year-old Cambodian Covid-19 patient who contracted the disease upon returning from Malaysia had recovered, bringing the total recoveries to 128 out of 130 patients.
The ministry on Monday warned citizens to practice hygiene, wear facemasks or use scarves when coughing or sneezing and maintain social and physical distancing to avoid a second wave of Covid-19 transmissions.
Phnom Penh municipal governor Khuong Sreng told The Post on Wednesday that the municipal hall would use two more schools – Kok Panchean Junior High School in Por Sen Chey district and Russey Keo High School in Russey Keo district – as quarantine facilities.
He said the schools were added in case the Hun Sen Champuvoin High School, the Chak Angrae Kraom Health Centre and the Air Force Base were filled.
Sreng said the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall has prepared three schools in the capital to serve as treatment and quarantine facilities for people who travel from abroad.
“At these three schools, we have prepared beds, blankets and pillows. We have well-prepared bathrooms and accommodations for them to be quarantined,” he said.
Health Ministry secretary of state York Sambath told reporters on Wednesday that Cambodia still received passengers from abroad.
Cambodian passengers have to be kept in quarantine at government-managed centres in case they travel with a Covid-19 passenger. Foreigners are sent to hotels for quarantine.
She said the three quarantine centres in Phnom Penh could accommodate 400 people.
“If there are more passengers we can still receive them. We have cooperated with the Phnom Penh Municipal Hall to expand locations for quarantine,” Sambath said.
In Phnom Penh, hotel owners are cooperating with the Ministry of Health to take in foreigners, she said.
For Cambodian passengers, 200 people can be accommodated at Champuvoin, 100 at the quarantine centre at the Air Force Base and 100 people at the Chak Angrae Kraom Health Centre.
She said more than 12,000 airline passengers had samples taken for testing as of Wednesday.
“Our working groups are on duty 24 hours a day. Even though planes land at all hours, they are on standby. All passengers who disembark have to be scanned for Covid-19,” Sambath stressed.
