Cambodia receives new batch of China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine

Airport workers transport packages of China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine at the Phnom Penh International Airport in Phnom Penh, Cambodia on June 19, 2021. A plane carrying a new batch of China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Phnom Penh on Saturday, giving another boost to the kingdom's inoculation drive. - Xinhua

PHNOM PENH, June 20 (Xinhua): A plane carrying a new batch of China's Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia, on Saturday, giving another boost to the kingdom's inoculation drive.

Cambodian health ministry's secretary of state Yok Sambath, who received the vaccine at the Phnom Penh International Airport, said the jab was purchased from Chinese biopharmaceutical firm Sinovac Biotech.