On 5 January, Prime Minister Hun Sen issued an order that anyone who had been diagnosed with Omicron infection should be treated in a hospital and not allowed to be treated at home.
Hun Sen also stressed that whether the patients with confirmed Omicron are rich or poor, big officials or petty officials, they must be treated in hospitals. Otherwise, if the Omicron mutation virus spreads to the community, it will face being blocked, will the people be willing? Of course not. Therefore, all parts of the country, including Siem Reap, Sihanoukville, Phnom Penh City, patients must be treated in hospitals.
Hun Sen also said that if I return to Myanmar after visiting Myanmar and confirm the case of Omicron, I will also lead by example and receive treatment in the hospital.
Prime Minister Hun Sen stressed: Previously, the Ministry of Health had asked me for instructions several times, saying that it was a certain person's child or wife who was infected with an Omicron case and applied for home treatment. I hereby publicly issue a strict order not to ask me for instructions from now on, whether it is anyone's child or wife, as long as it is an Omicron confirmed case, the patient cannot be treated at home.
Hun Sen said Cambodia took such measures to avoid another community outbreak, after all, the Cambodian government is urging the development of a third and fourth dose of booster injections.
Prime Minister Hun Sen said the government had prepared the National Tuberculosis Treatment Centre to admit patients with confirmed cases of Omicron, and now arranged for the "Mother of the Nation Hospital" to admit patients infected with the virus.