A press statement issued by Ministry of Health on February 4.
The Ministry of Health appealed to the former NagaWorld workers protesting near the integrated resort to take Covid-19 tests after one of them was confirmed positive for the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.
Institut Pasteur du Cambodge confirmed that the female protester – on a visit to the medical research centre on January 28 for a pregnancy check-up – carried the variant of concern, Minister of Health Mam Bun Heng said in a February 4 press statement.
“Thus, to avoid a Covid-19 outbreak – especially of the Omicron variant – on a large scale, [the ministry] appeals to all protesters to take Covid tests at the designated location on Koh Pich Island within three days – from the day of this announcement,” Bun Heng said.
Anyone who tests positive for the coronavirus must be placed into isolation and receive treatment as advised by the medical practitioners in charge.
Hundreds of former NagaWorld staff have been protesting for more than two months, demanding the reinstatement of 365 workers who were laid off in April last year.
