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Hun Manet is married to Pich Chanmony, the daughter of a prominent Cambodian politician and has three children.

"Imagine a well-targeted missile hits a compressor station or some other infrastructure. You have to take that risk," said Martin Pich, head of trading at Czech firm MND.

Thon Nika, a 41-year-old shift manager at a local garment factory, was fully vaccinated in May, but tested positive at work and spent two weeks, without any Covid symptoms, in the Koh Pich quarantine center.

Phal Lot, a frail, 62-year-old Khmer Rouge survivor who lives with her children, arrived at the Koh Pich quarantine center with an old clunky phone, to call her family, and the clothes on her back.

Yet many of the patients in the quarantine center at Koh Pich had been vaccinated and were asymptomatic.