Protests erupt among Cambodian factory workers demanding Covid tests


Workers at the factories in Kampong Cham province’s Cheung Prey district demand 50 per cent of their wages while they are kept in quarantine for 14 days. - Kampong Cham Provincial Information Department

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/ANN): Workers at the factories in Kampong Cham province’s Cheung Prey district demand 50 per cent of their wages while they are kept in quarantine for 14 days. Kampong Cham Provincial Information Department.

Medical workers have taken throat swabs to check for infections in more than 2,000 factory workers in Kampong Cham province’s Cheung Prey district after they gathered to block National Road 6 in protest on May 29.

The protest erupted after they had received information that five to six workers from two factories – Hwa Long Co Ltd and Out Sold Industry Co Ltd – in Phdav Chum commune’s Chheu Teal village had tested positive for Covid-19 and were admitted to the Kampong Cham provincial hospital.

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