108 - Cambodia's Response to COVID-19

Public Health On Call

The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

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🗓️ 6 July 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

From January to May, Cambodia had only 125 coronavirus cases—70% of which were from people traveling from outside of the country, and the rest of which could be linked to those cases. Even as sporadic cases continue to be detected in travelers returning at the border, Cambodia's implementation of WHO guidelines—test, isolate, trace, quarantine, and care —has kept numbers low. Dr. Kumanan Rasanathan, Health Systems Coordinator for WHO in Cambodia (and Incident Manager for COVID-19 from March to June), talks with guest host Dr. Sara Bennett about Cambodia's response and what has contributed to its relative success.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Public Health On Call, a new podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
0:12.7	Our focus is the novel coronavirus.
0:15.2	I'm Josh Sharfstein, a faculty member at Johns Hopkins, and also a former secretary of Maryland's health department.
0:21.6	Our goal with this podcast is to bring evidence and experts to help you understand today's
0:26.9	news about the novel coronavirus and what it means for tomorrow.
0:30.5	If you have questions, you can email them to public health question at jhh.edu.
0:36.3	That's public health question at jh.hu.edu for future podcast episodes.
0:42.4	Today, Professor Sarah Bennett speaks to Dr. Kumannan Razanathan, health systems coordinator
0:49.3	for the World Health Organization in Cambodia, a country that has seen relatively few COVID-19 cases to date.
0:56.6	They speak about Cambodia's response and how previous investments in health security after
1:02.3	other outbreaks continue to help keep people safe. Let's listen. Dr. Razanathan, thank you so much
1:10.3	for joining me today.
1:11.7	Hello, Sarah.
1:12.5	It's a pleasure to be here on the podcast.
1:15.0	When I look at the first four months of the outbreak in Cambodia from sort of late January
1:19.8	through till the end of May, it seems like the country has done a really remarkable job
1:24.4	in controlling COVID-19.
1:26.7	What do you think were the most important measures in
1:29.3	terms of containing the epidemic? Certainly when we look at the global experience, the first
1:35.3	four months in Cambodia from the detection of the first case on the 27th of January through to the
1:42.3	end of May went well. There were 125 cases and there were no
1:49.0	health worker infections. So, you know, the country continues to have sporadic cases. It's likely,
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