Unvaccinated tourists not exempted from quarantine upon arrival in Cambodia
Tourists who have not been vaccinated against COVID-19 will not be exempted from quarantine when entering Cambodia, according to the national press agency of Cambodia AKP.
Tourists at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia (Photo: khmertimeskh.com)
Phnom Penh (VNA) - Tourists who have notbeen vaccinated against COVID-19 will not be exempted from quarantine whenentering Cambodia, according to the national press agency of Cambodia AKP.
AKP quoted Prime Minister Hun Sen as saying at ameeting on May 17 with the Samdech Techo Young Volunteer Doctors Association(TYDA) that Cambodia welcomes all visitors, but people who have not beenvaccinated against COVID-19 must still be quarantined for seven days.
The PM emphasised that Cambodia has overcome theepidemic waves caused by variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus such as Alpha, Deltaand Omicron, but has not yet conquered COVID-19. Cambodia is devoting all ofits efforts to pushing the COVID-19 vaccination programme, so unvaccinatedtravellers cannot enter without quarantine.
Travellers who have been immunized against COVID-19do not need to be quarantined and are not required to take rapid or PCR testsbefore entering Cambodia.
As of May 16, about 93.79 percent of Cambodia'stotal population of 16 million people had received basic immunizations againstCOVID-19, with approximately 9 million individuals receiving the third dose and2.2 million receiving the fourth dose. Cambodia has not found a new case ofCOVID-19 in the last 9 days.
The total number of COVID-19 cases recorded inCambodia since the beginning of the pandemic is 136,262 cases, of which 133,197patients have recovered and 3,056 died from the disease. Cambodia detected thefirst case of COVID-19 in Preah Sihanouk province at the end of January 2020./.
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Tourists at Angkor Wat in Siem Reap, Cambodia (Photo: khmertimeskh.com) 
