Phnom Penh turned to China, now it’s the ‘world’s most vaccinated capital city’ | ChrisBarrett_
At a regional forum in May, Cambodia’s Hun Sen was asked pointedly about his reliance on China in tackling the pandemic and gave a pointed answer.Cambodia Prime Minister Hun Sen at a handover ceremony of Chinese vaccines.Four months later, after encountering a surge of cases that led hundreds of thousands to be confined to their houses and struggle for food, his unashamed leaning on Beijing has at least provided one upside to the misery wrought by the virus.
“Phnom Penh is fully vaccinated [apart from young children] for all intents and purposes,” said Mekong Strategic Partners partner Stephen Higgins, an Australian former banker with ANZ. But the kingdom’s free vaccine program is eight months ahead of schedule and should be completed as much as a year ahead of neighbouring countries, the report by Mekong Strategic Partners says.In a region that is the global epicentre for COVID-19 and its variants, Cambodia has the advantage of not having a shadow of the population of Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, Thailand and Myanmar, nor even half that of Malaysia.
Along with the procurement itself, the report credits the vaccination progress to “simple ring-fenced distribution” based on location rather than age tiers, low vaccine hesitancy and vaccine mandates for large sections of the community such as the armed forces and public service.
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