School reopening ‘offers model for other sectors’
World Health Organisation (WHO) representative to Cambodia Li Ailan said school reopening process should be used as a role model for reopening other sectors currently mothballed by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Li strongly supports the government’s decision to reopen schools, saying it is a decision backed by UN agencies and other international experts.
Speaking to reporters while visiting centenarians who volunteered for vaccinations in Kampong Thom province on September 6, Li said many people, including students, parents, teachers, and even the WHO and other UN bodies like UNICEF and UNESCO, had been hoping that schools would reopen as soon as possible.
She said the current evidence shows that students and schools themselves are not major drivers of Covid-19 transmissions and keeping them shut any longer could cause students real harm.
“If you look at Cambodia, transmissions mainly occurred in ... settings like casinos, factories, prisons,markets and other crowded places.
“We did no...