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
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)