6-11 year olds to be vaccinated imminently: PM

As middle and high schools reopened this week across the country, Prime Minister (PM) Hun Sen has announced a vaccination campaign for children aged 6 to 11 in order to safely reopen primary schools as well.

The vaccination campaign is scheduled to start on September 17, 2021, as the PM announced in an audio message release.

In Phnom Penh, over 200 private and public middle and high schools reopened their doors on September 15 following their closure for over seven months due to the Covid-19 pandemic and the advent of widespread community transmission in Cambodia following the February 20 outbreak.

It is also planned to start the vaccination of 3-6-year-old children in the near future, Hun Sen hinted

According to the municipality’s figures, a total of 10,443 teachers in Phnom Penh took rapid tests recently in advance of school resuming and 24 of them tested positive.

The teachers who tested positive were all vaccinated and were asymptomatic cases. Sreng said this indicates that while vaccinees can still contract the virus despite vaccinations, the jabs appeared to be giving them robust protection against developing serious illness from the virus.

The prime minister noted that Covid-19 vaccinations for these age groups have already been carried out in some countries and there has been no indication of any problems related to the practice.