Prime Minister Hun Sen has called on the people to remain vigilant against the Covid-19 epidemic even though Cambodia no longer has any patients.

The last recovered woman was discharged from the Khmer–Soviet Friendship Hospital on Saturday.

Hun Sen on Sunday applauded the 36-year-old woman – one of 122 total patients – when the Ministry of Health announced that she had recovered and was discharged from the hospital after two tests came back negative for Covid-19.

But he said that even though Cambodia had no new cases, people must practice regular hygiene, wear facemasks, and wash their hands with soap or gel. They have to continue keeping a distance from one another and stay at home whenever possible.

“There is no medicine to treat the disease yet. [I] would like to thank everyone for fighting Covid-19 together,” he said.

The Ministry of Health also announced that in the past month, Cambodia had not confirmed any new case and all patients had recovered 100 per cent.

Still, the announcement said Cambodia has work to do to prevent a second wave of infections, especially avoiding importation of Covid-19.

Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng said when applauding the woman on Saturday that Cambodia has to focus its attention on preventing the import of Covid-19.

He also said a number of people from abroad had returned to the country, especially from Thailand.

“We think that most of them import the disease. So we must be careful along the borders and the airports and ports have to be monitored and inspected.

“The government has installed checkpoints along the borders and at various airports. Brothers and sisters from abroad have to hold letters confirming that they have no Covid-19 and then they can enter the country.

“When entering the country they have to be subjected to a 14-day quarantine,” Bun Heng said.

Banteay Meanchey provincial health department director Keo Sopheaktra told The Post on Sunday that the last recovered woman continues to be kept in quarantine at the Poipet town hospital, waiting for a third negative test later this month before being allowed to reunite with her family as normal.

She confirmed that the woman had been treated for more than a month before she was proclaimed recovered.