Phnom Penh (FN), Aug. 20 – Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen reaffirmed that ensuring quarantine for high-risk area and lockdown do not violate human rights, speaking at the opening ceremony of the Interfaith Forum on Combating Human Trafficking and the COVID19 Global Pandemic on Friday.

“The placement of people or returnees from high-risk areas under quarantine, or the lockdown of areas with high infection rates or high currents of infection, or the suspension of illegal border crossings in the time of tightening security measures does not equate to the violation of rights and freedom or discrimination, as accused by a group of unscrupulous people who have a tendency to oppose without reservation and have been propagandizing to demoralize the citizens. Instead, these practices are effective measures to protect the rights to live and to be protected from the pandemic.” said the premier.

He mentioned that at the same time, the RGC has been actively implementing measures, on the one hand, to maintain security, order and social stability in order to sustain the livelihood of the citizens and maintain macroeconomic stability, and on the other hand, to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, ranging from prevention and treatment to rehabilitation of the victims and the affected communities.

Meanwhile, as the vaccination campaign for our citizens is close to be achieved as planned, the RGC is committed to achieving the goal of vaccinating children-youths aged 12 to under 18 by the end of 2021, to build herd immunity and reduce community transmission, in order to bring our people’s lives back to normal and restore our economy and society.

He called the compatriots to continue to maintain and implement the principles of prevention and the “3 Dos and 3 Don’ts” health measure with strict adherence, do not be negligent, and must go to get the vaccines against COVID-19 which the government provides for free to everyone, in order to build immunity against this deadly pandemic.

To date, Cambodia has confirmed 88,242 cases of COVID19 with 83,851 recoveries and 1,762 deaths.
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