Workers move boxes loaded with COVID-19's vaccine before a handing over ceremony at Phnom Penh International Airport, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. More than 300,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines from Serum Institute of India on Tuesday arrived Phnom Penh, as part of global COVAX initiative. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen inoculated against COVID-19

March 5th, 7:11am March 5th, 7:11am

Health

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen was inoculated Thursday with a vaccine supplied by the World Health Organization’s COVAX initiative, as a plan to immunize up to two-thirds of the country’s population was on track to be completed by the end of the year.

Hun Sen received a shot donated by India, one of 324,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine that arrived Tuesday.

His vaccination comes as Cambodia fights to quell a fresh surge in infections that has mostly affected the Chinese community in Sihanoukville, a city home to the country’s main port and huge Chinese investments and construction projects.

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