{"id":19708,"date":"2020-06-25T22:40:52","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/cambodia-tourism-chiefs-call-for-end-to-covid-19-healthcare-and-funeral-deposit"},"modified":"2020-06-25T22:40:52","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T13:40:52","slug":"cambodia-tourism-chiefs-call-for-end-to-covid-19-healthcare-and-funeral-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19708","title":{"rendered":"Cambodia tourism chiefs call for end to Covid-19 healthcare and funeral deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government has said all foreign arrivals have to pay $3,000 to cover potential coronavirus costs<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Tourism chiefs in Cambodia say they hope officials will drop a $3,000 (\u00a32,400) coronavirus deposit scheme under which travellers have to make a downpayment for potential medical costs \u2013 including their funeral \u2013 arguing it is likely to deter potential visitors.<\/p>\n<p>The government announced earlier this month that all foreigners entering the country must have an insurance package worth $50,000 and make a deposit of $3,000 in cash or by credit card. The deposit covers possible expenses in the event a person catches Covid-19, including healthcare, laundry services, meals and a funeral.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/25\/cambodia-tourism-chiefs-call-for-end-to-covid-19-healthcare-and-funeral-deposit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has said all foreign arrivals have to pay $3,000 to cover potential coronavirus costsCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTourism chiefs in Cambodia say they hope officials will drop a $3,000 (\u00a32,400) coronavirus depos&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,361,1069,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-cambodia","category-coronavirus-outbreak","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19709,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19708\/revisions\/19709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}