A/HRC/45/51/Add.1 and other channels on a regular basis throughout the country. The COVID-19 Subcommittee at the sub-national level, including local authorities, communes/Sangkats, also regularly disseminated health education messages. Currently, the Kingdom of Cambodia is able to prevent the COVID-19 pandemic in communities in a highly efficient manner. Paragraph 65 94. COVID-19 has caused huge impact on many sectors in the globe, including labour and employment. However, because of the right decision of the Government to put in place concrete measures coupled with the strong participation and supports from all the people from when this pandemic emerged, Cambodia could manage to prevent and contain the spread of this disease in the community and the enterprises. More importantly, during this period, the Government has never restricted the rights of people; they are free to work, travel and do other activities as allowed by laws but just follow the health measures of the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO). 95. Moreover, the Government has also implemented a lot of measures to cushion the enormous impacts of COVID-19 on the economy and people’s livelihood. Some of the main actions taken by the Government are as follows: The government’s measures to support the affected workers are: a) providing monthly extra income support of 40 USD to each suspended worker in garment and tourist sectors; b) maintaining the health insurance benefits to the suspended workers and maternity leave benefits, including the financial support to the female workers during the suspension; c) suspension; suspending the payment of utility costs at workers’ rental house during the d) allocating extraordinary budget of 300 million USD for providing social assistance and food security to the vulnerable groups, including workers in the informal economy and returned migrant workers; e) planning to upskill and reskill laid-off workers; f) conducting trainings on Covid-19 prevention to factories’ managers and workers, and strictly inspecting this measure; g) advising banks and microfinance institutions to reduce interest rates and delay the collection of loan; h) payments; advising the housing developers to postpone the collection of installment i) organizing the World Day for Safety and Health through video conference in collaboration with ILO Better Factories Cambodia and ILO/Japan OSH project to promote the awareness of the risk of Covid-19 on safety and health of workers at the workplaces and in the community. j) providing treatment for free to infected foreigners, including migrant workers, who were staying and traveling in Cambodia. In this connection, we wish to sincerely thank the Governments of Thailand, Singapore, and Malaysia for providing the free treatment to our migrant workers and nationals who are working or stranded in respective countries. This generous and humanitarian gesture has symbolized ASEAN’s collective and solidarity in our responses to this global pandemic. The government’s measures to support the affected business are: a) providing tax holiday and tax exemption for badly affected factories, touristrelated enterprises, and civil aviation; b) exempting from paying obligatory contribution to the National Social Security Fund during the suspension; 17