Phnom Penh (FN), Dec. 18 – Cambodian prime minister Hun Sen reaffirmed to not panic about COVID19 Omicron variant, speaking at the at the inauguration ceremony of the new National Stadium on Saturday.

"We detected second case of Omicron last night, but do not panic about it,” the premier said.

On 17 December 2021, Cambodia detected the second case of COVID19 Omicron variant on a 25-year-old Iranian man who returned from Kenya. The patient stays in Daun Penh district, Phnom Penh. He flew from Kenya to Dubai, then to Thailand, and lastly arrived in Cambodia on 16 December 2021.
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