Title of article :
Tourist Driver and Preventive Practice against COVID‑19: A Short Report from Situation in Siem Reap Cambodia
Author/Authors :
Sookaromdee, Pathum Private Academic Practice, Bangkok, Thailand , Wiwanitkit, Viroj Department of Community Medicine - Dr DY Patil University, Pune, Maharashtra, India
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Abstract :
COVID‑19 already spread worldwide and it is considered as an important public health problem in world history. The disease usually spread rapidly in tourist town. In Indochina, the disease already spread in all countries. As a tourist hot sport of the world, many tourists became disease spreader in this area. According to the report by Haider et al., Cambodia is a country with high risk for nationwide disease spreading.[1] In Cambodia, the disease already occurred and become a local problem in mid‑March 2020. The bolus of imported cases among foreign tourist cause an abrupt increase of incidence in the country. In Siem Reap, the town where one the Wonders of the World is located, there are many infected patients. Since many local people in this town have tourism‑related jobs, disease control among those local people working in tourist service job is very important. Of several occupations, the local tourist driver or Tuk‑Tuk driver is an occupation that gets directly exposed to tourists.
Keywords :
Tourist Driver , Preventive Practice , COVID‑19 , Situation in Siem Reap Cambodia
Journal title :
International Journal of Preventive Medicine (IJPM)
Serial Year :
2020
Record number :
2610397
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