Cambodia-Vietnam cross-border travel banned to curb pandemic

Cambodia banned cross-border travel between Cambodia and Vietnam for a month to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to Cambodia effective from July 18.

In a letter to Cambodian Ambassador to Vietnam Chay Navuth, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said: “In order to prevent the spread of Covid-19 to the Kingdom of Cambodia, the royal government has decided to temporarily suspend the Cambodian-Vietnamese border crossing of skilled workers, technicians, and employees of Vietnamese companies.”

The ministry said exceptions are made only to patients seeking medical treatment in Vietnam, diplomats, civil servants on a mission, students, and course-completing trainees, or cases with special permission from the government.

The ministry said employees and skilled workers of Vietnamese companies who have entered Cambodia, with those completing quarantine and still in quarantine, are not allowed to return to Vietnam during the suspension period.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs asked the Cambodian embassy in Vietnam to cooperate with the Vietnamese authorities to ask the two countries’ authorities to facilitate transporting, exporting, and importing goods by “strictly” enforcing the two countries’ health regulations.