{"id":69263,"date":"2020-12-08T08:25:22","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T01:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/?p=69263"},"modified":"2020-12-08T17:42:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T10:42:51","slug":"one-million-doses-of-vaccine-for-free-of-charge-vaccination-as-a-first-step-unofficial-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/en\/archives\/69263","title":{"rendered":"Message of Samdech Techo Hun Sen, One Million Doses of Vaccine for Free-of-Charge Vaccination as a First Step [Unofficial Translation]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">CNV: <a title=\"8:45 pm\" href=\"http:\/\/cnv.org.kh\/2020\/12\/07\/\" rel=\"bookmark\"><time class=\"entry-date updated\" datetime=\"2020-12-07T20:45:04+00:00\">07\/12\/2020<\/time><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Dear compatriots!<\/p>\n<p>All along, while monitoring the production of vaccines against Covid-19 of many different countries, I have advised the Minister of Health and the Minister of Economy and Finance to prepare a budget for the purchase of this vaccine for a free-of-charge vaccination for our people as a first step.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-69266\" src=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"970\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o.jpg 970w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o-284x300.jpg 284w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o-768x811.jpg 768w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o-696x735.jpg 696w, https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/129990690_3585671831481288_820095542735681064_o-398x420.jpg 398w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 970px) 100vw, 970px\" \/><\/a>Presently, some countries are producing and launching the use, while releasing the vaccines on sale to other countries. This evening, I instructed the Minister of Health to discuss with development partners, especially the World Health Organization (WHO), to determine from which country we should buy the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>I also advised the Minister of Economy and Finance to prepare a budget for the purchase of one million doses in the first phase to be given to those who work in high-risk areas and those with high risk. For one million doses, we can vaccinate 500,000 people (because one person needs two vaccinations), while we have a population of 16 million, young and old, and among them some 10 million people needed to be vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>In a situation that our country is short of funds to buy more, I have advised the two ministers to discuss with both bilateral and multilateral development partners to seek additional assistance to help our people.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that our development partners will help our people or at least sell us (the vaccines) at a reasonably low price. I also advised the Minister of Economy and Finance to prepare a budget for the purchase of two to three million doses for the next phase.\/.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All along, while monitoring the production of vaccines against Covid-19 of many different countries, I have advised the Minister of Health and the Minister of Economy and Finance to prepare a budget for the purchase <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":69266,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-69263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-general-news","8":"category-royal-message-letter"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69263"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69272,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69263\/revisions\/69272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressocm.gov.kh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}