PHNOM PENH, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's COVID-19 case total has risen to 90,107 on Tuesday after 466 fresh infections were reported across the Southeast Asian nation, the health ministry said in a statement.
The new infections included 372 domestic cases and 94 imported ones, the ministry said.
Thirteen more fatalities had been registered, taking the death toll to 1,821, it said, adding that 512 patients had recovered, bringing the total number of recoveries to 86,130.
Cambodia launched a COVID-19 inoculation drive in February, targeting to vaccinate 12 million people, or 75 percent of the kingdom's 16-million population by the end of this year.
As of Aug. 23, some 9.85 million people have received at least one vaccine dose, while 7.96 million of them have received both required shots, the ministry said.
Most of the vaccines used in the kingdom's immunization program are China's Sinovac and Sinopharm.
World Health Organization (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said that to suppress the COVID-19 and its variants, people must continue to implement non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) effectively in combination with vaccination.
"Despite the Delta variant, COVID-19 vaccines remain effective against severe disease, hospitalization and deaths, especially for the elderly and other vulnerable groups," she wrote on Twitter. Enditem
