Cambodia is now officially Covid-19 free, says top health official Or Vandine

A police officer gets vaccinated at Dangkor Referral Hospital in Phnom Penh’s Dangkor district in March last year. - Phnom Penh Post/ANN

PHNOM PENH, June 7 (Xinhua): Cambodia has become a state of Covid-zero after the last patient recovered, according to a health ministry's statement on Tuesday.

The country reported no new cases of Covid-19 for 31 days straight, the statement said, adding that since the pandemic began in January 2020, the South-East Asian nation has logged a total of 136,262 confirmed cases with 133,206 recoveries and 3,056 deaths.