HEADLINE: PHNOM PENH, Cambodia- Low daily national case figures announced again for Cambodia – but provincial totals seem to be higher
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Provincial cases and fatalities continue to be reported as Delta Variant wreak havoc
As the Delta cases in the country closes on the 1,000-mark, provinces continue to report rise in cases and fatalities. Delta cases have been reported in all the provinces in the country.
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PCR testing and gene sequencing is ubiquitous throughout the nation as provinces are aiming to contain and stop the spread of the Delta Variant. Samples are now being sent to Institut Pasteur to detect for the mutation. Most, if not all, of the cases discovered have their samples collected and sent for Delta detection.
Svay Rieng reported the discovery of 5 cases and 1 death. The province also reported the recovery of 30 people.
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CAMBODIA
New Cases- 519
Total Cases- 88,242
Recovered- 83,851
Deaths- 1,762
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Official daily COVID case numbers were once again much lower than expected, despite seemingly significantly higher provincial numbers being reported again.
Cambodia today announced an official daily new cases total of 493, bringing the COVID case total to 88,735 cases.
The total number of Community Cases is now 74,742 with 13,993 cases being imported.
189 imported cases were announced today as imported case numbers continue to be higher as a consequence of the Thai border reopening last week.
Provincial cases continue to rise – despite low official national figures – and the provinces – and especially the 8 provinces bordering Thailand – are at the vanguard of Cambodia’s fight against COVID.
There is some confusion over the provincial figures – with individual provincial totals seemingly not correlating to the national totals announced daily.
Banteay Meanchey province, in particular, is currently experiencing a ‘surge’ in COVID cases – with another 210 cases recorded today.
The new ‘Delta’ variant continues to cause worries, with a big jump of 342 cases being announced yesterday – bringing the ‘Delta’ case total close to 1,000.
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However, there is some good news as experts predict that Cambodia will near herd immunity against COVID-19 by the end of 2021.
In addition, more than 423,000 in Cambodia have been administered the 3rd booster shot against COVID-19.
Cambodia also announced 16 new deaths, bringing the total to 1778 direct deaths from COVID-19 in Cambodia.
Recoveries outpaced new cases with 655 new recoveries announced today – but by a smaller margin then in the last 2 weeks – meaning that the active case total dropped to 2,444 active cases.
