Cambodian minister renews call for Covid-19 medicines, vaccines to be global public goods

Cambodian soldiers carry aid including medical equipment from China, to be used to combat the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, at Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh on April 25, 2020. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodian Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn on Thursday (July 9) renewed a call for Covid-19 medicines and vaccines to be global common goods that can be accessed by all countries, said a foreign ministry's press statement.

"He further echoed the appeal of Cambodia's Prime Minister Hun Sen, at the last 36th Asean Summit, to make the Covid-19 medicines and vaccine as global public goods that can be accessed by all," the statement said.