Patient details released as gov’t scrambles to contain new cluster

 Cambojanews, Dec. 5, 2020

Prime Minister Hun Sen said the release of personal information of people recently diagnosed with COVID-19 and part of the recent community transmission cluster was necessary, as the case tally rose to 29 on Saturday, after six employees at a Phnom Penh fashion store tested positive.

The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday morning that six more employees from Pedro footwear and accessory store on Preah Sihanouk Boulevard tested positive, a day after a colleague of theirs had come in contact with a COVID-19-positive bank employee from Canadia Tower.

In an audio recording released Friday night, Hun Sen said the identities of the individuals with COVID-19 would be released publicly so that people who had come in contact with them would know and can get tested.

“We need to release the picture, name and address of those who were found COVID-19 positive, so other people who have contact with them need to show up for testing and put on quarantine timely,” he said.

Hun Sen defended the move to release confidential medical information, saying he had been forthcoming about his test results during mass testing for a prior coronavirus scare in early November.

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