Cambodian Chinese Chamber Of Commerce: The Infection Route Is Out Of Control, Which Is Very Painful For The Factory!

The outbreak of the factory epidemic is the main reason for the closure of Phnom Penh City. However, the factory has become the first disaster area after Phnom Penh was unsealed.

After Phnom Penh was officially unsealed on May 6, 2021, the epidemic situation in factories recurred unexpectedly, and more and more factories have become victims of the epidemic. It's very painful for the factory when the infection route has not been controlled.

On the morning of June 7, Cambodia's headline reporter interviewed Mr. He Enjia, President of the textile enterprises association of the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Cambodia, to understand the difficulties faced by factories in the special period of the epidemic and the problems to be solved.

The epidemic spread to factories all over the country

He Enjia said that the epidemic has had a serious impact on Cambodian factories, affecting hundreds of factories and thousands of workers so far. The factory is operating in the shadow of the epidemic, worried about both the safety of workers and the production of the factory. Because Cambodia does not have enough resources to carry out the general test, it is unable to master the asymptomatic infected persons, resulting in the inability to control the infection route. This situation is very painful for factories. On the one hand, they are worried that workers will be infected with the new coronavirus, and on the other hand, the factory will be isolated and unable to produce. If there is any problem in any link, the consequences will be unimaginable.

He said that the epidemic has spread all over Cambodia, and almost all factories across the country have been affected. In particular, factories in Phnom Penh are short of workers after returning to work. On the one hand, the infection has caused workers' panic; on the other hand, workers are worried about being isolated, and more of them go back to their hometown.

He stressed that once an overcrowded factory is attacked by the epidemic, the factory will be blocked and isolated, and the entire production chain of the factory will be hit, even paralyzed, and eventually forced to stop work, resulting in orders not being completed on time, resulting in a bad cycle, including the factory's credit, reputation and capital are seriously affected. In addition, when there are confirmed cases in the factory, on the one hand, they are worried about being isolated, on the other hand, the number of workers is constantly decreasing. Some factories in this predicament may be closed due to the broken capital chain, resulting in endless losses. If there are confirmed cases in the factories, many factories in Cambodia may be closed down or find another way to survive after the outbreak.

Doing a good job in epidemic prevention is the most basic self-help

Over and over again, Premier Hun Sen and the Ministry of Health urged the people of the whole country to keep a high degree of vigilance against the epidemic situation, and to take preventive measures against the three "Preventions" and "three no's". Otherwise, they would fall to the ground in the shadow of the epidemic.

In this regard, he Enjia said that factories should strictly take measures to measure temperature, disinfect, distribute masks, strictly supervise the correct wearing of masks, establish a reporting system for workers with fever and cough, timely test workers with fever and cough, and strive to achieve "early test", "early isolation", "early treatment", "early cure" and "early return to work". Only by doing this basic epidemic prevention measures well, Only in this way can the uninfected workers in the factory work at ease, and the factory owner or boss does not need to worry and sleep every day.

He also believes that speeding up the vaccination of new coronal vaccine for workers to achieve the effect of local group immunity is also an effective measure to avoid the outbreak of epidemic in the factory, so as to establish a stable and reliable protective wall for the factory.

He Enjia hopes that the government will vaccinate factory workers as soon as possible, so that the factory can achieve the effect of local group immunity and make the factory and workers relatively safe. Secondly, it is hoped that the government can provide the factories with full tests, so that infected workers can get treatment, let the workers who are not infected continue to work, maintain the operation of the factory, and appropriately reduce the burden of the factory, so that the factory can survive and the workers have jobs to do.

He also pointed out that in view of the government's lack of resources, he hoped that the government would relax the use of rapid testing agents, approve more qualified and low-cost rapid testing agents, let factories purchase test agents themselves, train factory internal testing, eliminate and control infected personnel, which can not only help the government control the actual situation of infection, but also improve the efficiency of anti epidemic.

He stressed that in the face of a world-class epidemic, the strength and resources of the government alone are negligible. Only when the government and the people work together to fight the epidemic and each of them has played its due role, can the epidemic be controlled and ended as soon as possible, and the society and the people can live and work in peace and contentment.