FOR SAFETY Health officials administer swab tests to Cambodians in Phnom Penh on Aug. 12, 2021. Most Covid patients in the country are living near the Thailand border, causing the government to consider closing boundaries with Thailand. KHMER TIMES PHOTO
FOR SAFETY Health officials administer swab tests to Cambodians in Phnom Penh on Aug. 12, 2021. Most Covid patients in the country are living near the Thailand border, causing the government to consider closing boundaries with Thailand. KHMER TIMES PHOTO


PHNOM PENH: According to authorities, almost 20,000 people have been detained in the last 2 weeks in Cambodia for flouting the Royal Government's curfew and restriction measures.

The scale of the problem was confirmed by Kim Santepheap, secretary of state of the Ministry of Justice and spokesman for the Inter-Ministerial Commission for Combating Covid-19.

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