PHNOM PENH: During his speech at the award ceremony for the gold medalist of the World Petanque Championship, the Cambodian national Ouk Sreymom, Prime Minister Hun Sen has given remarks over the Omicron situation in Cambodia.

The Prime Minister has stressed that Omicron patients are not allowed to be treated at home, being directed for specialized treatment centers.

Prime Minister Hun Sen has announced: Anyone detected by the Covid-19 variant B.1.1.529, most well known as Omicron variant won’t be allowed to be treated at home.

The Prime Minister has pointed out that until today, the Kingdom has already reported 94 confirmed cases, all of them being imported from abroad into Cambodia.

In order to further strengthen the herd immunity against the pandemic, Samdech Techo Prime Minister said 700,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine will be reserved for the 4th doses for frontline officials, including health workers such as doctors and nurses, journalists, and athletes.

The 700,000 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine were delivered by the government of Australia by the end of last year.

Prime Minister Hun Sen has also given an overall and alarming statistics about Omicron infection in other countries. In United States daily Covid-19 infection rates has jumped to a million, while in UK and France hundreds of thousands of patients were detected positive for Covid-19.

The neighbor country of Thailand has its Omicron infection spiking numbers of two thousands patients.

Omicron variant has shown to be not as severe as other Covid-19 variants, but it’s power to infect and transmit the disease is impressively strong. For that reason, Prime Minister Hun Sen has excluded the chance for Omicron patients to be treated at home, in order to prevent community transmission between family members and neighbors.

Currently, the Royal Government has decided to take Luang Mae Hospital, which is located in Sangkat Prey Sar, Khan Dangkor, Phnom Penh, to treat patients with Omicron.