Cambodia’s government should take “urgent measures” to reduce the risk that the country’s “severely overcrowded” jails will suffer coronavirus outbreaks, a human rights group said over the weekend, calling on authorities to release prisoners at greater risk, as well as those detained for minor offenses. The number of patients confirmed to have COVID-19—the disease caused by the coronavirus—held steady at 114 on Monday with no reported deaths for the third straight day in Cambodia, but New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned in a statement a day earlier that overcrowding in the country’s prisons risks “serious health consequences” for prisoners, prison staff, and the broader public.
The leaders of 17 unions issued a joint statement urging garment workers to work as usual during Khmer New Year amid the coronavirus outbreak and the Labour Ministry said workers who take leave to go to their home provinces for the festival will have to undergo 14 days mandatory self-quarantine when they return.
International Labour Organisation (ILO) has described the pandemic as “the worst global crisis since World War 2” and estimates that its continuing effects could see 6.7 per cent of working hours globally – the equivalent of 195 million full-time workers – wiped out in the second quarter of the year.https://bit.ly/3b2CRGm;
