Banteay Meanchey governor Oum Reatrey said yesterday (Jan 14) that thermal scanners to detect fever had already been installed and were operational at the border checkpoint.
“We have already installed the scanners to screen travellers for the new form of virus but until now there have been no cases detected at the Poipet border,” the Khmer Times today quoted him as saying.
It was reported on Monday (Jan 13) that a Chinese tourist was found infected with the new strain of coronavirus when she arrived in Thailand (see story here).
Coronaviruses are not necessarily life-threatening but have been the underlying cause of public health crises, including severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, which killed hundreds of people after an outbreak in southern China in 2002 and 2003.
The Wuhan viral outbreak seems to be less virulent and less transmittable, according to the World Health Organisation.
Cambodian Ministry of Health spokesmen Or Vandine and Ly Sovann could not be reached for comment yesterday.