PHNOM PENH: The Ministry of Health has announced that it will add additional teams of mobile doctors deployed to provide Covid-19 vaccinations, both the base and booster doses, at factories, schools, markets and major towns across Cambodia, so that getting the Covid-19 vaccine will be easier for the public, and the community’s collective immunity can grow stronger.

According to the Ministry of Health’s announcement on Monday, 18 April, reminding all eligible members of the public to go and get their booster doses of the Covid-19 vaccine, after the Khmer New Year, there will be an additional team of mobile doctors deployed by the Ministry of National Defense, to vaccinate people at the local level in the provinces of Phnom Penh, Kandal, Kampong Speu, Battambang and Banteay Meanchey.

Volunteer youth doctors will also be deployed to administer vaccinations on the ground in Kampong Cham, Kampot, Prey Veng, Kampong Chhnang, Tbong Khmum, Kampong Thom, Pursat, Svay Rieng, Stung Treng and Kratie provinces. Additionally, another team of doctors will be deployed by 10 provincial administrations to vaccinate main target groups.

This vaccination drive was jointly-coordinated with the Ministry of Labor and Vocational Training, local authorities, the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports and the capital-provincial administrations to set up vaccination sites at priority locations such as factories, enterprises, markets, towns and schools.

Covid-19 vaccination sites at public health facilities in the 25 capital-provincial administrations continue to operate daily, including on Saturdays and Sundays.

The Ministry of Health urges the public to please visit the vaccination sites at the health centers or one of mentioned target group areas, and also reminds that there will be a team of doctors deployed to administer vaccines to people at home, for those who cannot access the available vaccination sites.

The Ministry of Health emphasizes that these actions are being taken to alleviate any hardships faced by people who need to get vaccinated on time but cannot easily access vaccination sites, as well as to increase the rate of vaccination and boost both individual and community immunity to help prevent the further spread of Covid-19, and in particular, the Omicron variant which is still circulating in the community, as well as to prevent the spread of any new strains of the virus.