The Kingdom's Covid-19 vaccination campaign for children aged 12-17 kicked off on the morning of August 1, with Prime Minister Hun Sen bringing his nearly 20 grandchildren to the Peace Palace in Phnom Penh to get vaccinated. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN
PHNOM PENH, Aug 1 (AFP): Cambodia began a roll out of Covid-19 vaccinations for teenagers in its capital Phnom Penh and three provinces Sunday, with Premier Hun Sen's grandchildren among the first to get the jab.
Several countries in Southeast Asia are currently experiencing a deadly Covid-19 resurgence largely driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, which has set back the region's successes last year in curbing pandemic tolls.
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