Police stopped more than 1,000 vehicles and briefly held over 3,000 people for violating Covid-19 measures across the country on August 13.

They pulled over 1,326 vehicles and reprimanded a total of 3,218 people and sent one person to court, according to the Inter-ministerial Commitee to Combat Covid-19

It said police had collected fines totalling 53.8 million riel ($13,200).