After the rise of Omicron in Cambodia, case numbers appear to now be dropping to lower levels as the trend of double digit case numbers continues.
Today’s official daily new COVID case total (diagnosed by PCR test) was 35 – all the Omicron variant – bringing the COVID case total to 135,782 cases.
Cambodia also announced 0 new deaths, bringing the total to 3,054 direct deaths from COVID-19 in Cambodia.
The Kingdom recorded 35 new community and 0 new imported cases of the new variant.
Cambodia has now recorded 15341 cases of Omicron – 1353 imported and 13988 community cases.
There are now 520 active COVID cases (diagnosed by PCR test) in The Kingdom.
COVID – and Omicron – figures appear to be stabilising in Cambodia.
PM Hun Sen appeared today to be signalling that the end of the current phase of the pandemic – and a move to normalcy may be coming soon, when he indicated that the Royal Government is considering ending the mandatory wearing of masks to protect against COVID-19 – at least in some provinces of Cambodia.
However, World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said on Saturday that the COVID-19 pandemic in the country is not over yet, though the number of new infections has once again declined to two digits.
Even though Cambodian cases are not being widely reported, 50% of new imported cases in Thailand came from Cambodia on Friday – showing that Omicron seems to be very much ‘alive and kicking’
After October’s spectacular downwards trend in reported cases – a result of a policy of not counting ‘rapid’ testing and ‘mild’ cases of COVID-19 in the official daily case figures – daily case figures dropped strikingly.
However, the advent of Omicron has now meant that case figures had now been travelling rapidly up again into the triple digit range, but have now dropped again – as illustrated in the graph below (please note results may be up to 2 days behind)
Looking at other figures, the total number of Community Cases is now 114,572 with 21,210 cases being imported.
Cambodia also announced 0 new deaths, bringing the total to 3,054 direct deaths from COVID-19 in Cambodia.
133 recoveries were announced – there are now 520 active COVID cases diagnosed by PCR test in Cambodia.
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