Cambodia reaches the 70% Covid-19 vaccination milestone


PHNOM PENH, Sept. 5 (Xinhua): Cambodia has administered at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine to almost 11.2 million eligible people, or 70 per cent of the kingdom's 16-million population, a spokesperson for the Ministry of Health (MoH) said on Sunday.

Of them, 8.87 million people, or 55 per cent, have received both required doses and 660,292 have received a third dose or booster dose, MoH's secretary of state and spokeswoman Or Vandine said in a report.

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