PHNOM PENH (Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Prime Minister Hun Sen on March 4 became the Kingdom's first to be inoculated with the AstraZeneca/SII jab, which was provided through the Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access (Covax) Facility and whose first shipment of 324,000 does touched down in Phnom Penh on March 2.
Hun Sen was vaccinated to large fanfare at Calmette Hospital along with his wife Bun Rany Hun Sen and other senior officials. They included, among others, health minister Mam Bun Heng; interior minister Sar Kheng and his wife; and public works minister Sun Chanthol.