COVID-19 in Asean: British woman is Cambodia’s third confirmed case

COVID-19 in Asean: British woman is Cambodia’s third confirmed case
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A 65-year-old “British” woman is Cambodia’s third case of COVID-19. Cambodia’s Minister of Health, Mam Bunheng, announced that the woman had tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 virus at a late night media briefing in the capital, Phnom Penh, earlier tonight (March 10).

According to Mr Bunheng the woman arrived in Kampong Cham, about 124 kilometres (about 77 miles) northeast of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh on March 7, having left Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, two days earlier onboard a Viking River Cruise vessel.

Mr Bunheng said the woman was travelling with a group of four other ‘Britons’ who had flown into Hanoi, Vietnam on March 2 from London. A Vietnamese man had sat near the woman during the flight and he had subsequently tested positive for SARS-CoV-2.

Vietnamese authorities notified their Cambodian counterparts and the group was met by health officials on arrival at Kampong Cham, he said.

According to Mr Bunheng the five Brits were then taken to the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital for medical examination, with the ship ordered to wait on test results before disembarking passengers or crew. As a result of the positive test all passengers and crew will now be tested, he added.

Mr Bunheng described the woman as being in good health, quarantined at a hospital in Kampong Cham province.

Last Friday Cambodia reported its second case of COVID-19, a 38-year-old Cambodian man in Siem Reap province.

 

 

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  • COVID-19 in Asean: Thai Airways axes flights to 7 international destinations (AEC News Today)
  • COVID-19 in Asean: update for March 10 (AEC News Today)

 

 

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John Le Fevre

Thailand editor at AEC News Today

John is an Australian national with more than 40 years experience as a journalist, photographer, videographer, and copy editor.

He has spent extensive periods of time working in Africa and throughout Southeast Asia, with stints in the Middle East, the USA, and England.

He has covered major world events including Operation Desert Shield/ Storm, the 1991 pillage in Zaire, the 1994 Rwanda genocide, the 1999 East Timor independence unrest, the 2004 Asian tsunami, and the 2009, 2010, and 2014 Bangkok political protests.

In 1995 he was a Walkley Award finalist, the highest awards in Australian journalism, for his coverage of the 1995 Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo) Ebola outbreak.

Prior to AEC News Today he was the deputy editor and Thailand and Greater Mekong Sub-region editor for The Establishment Post, predecessor of Asean Today.

In the mid-80s and early 90s he owned JLF Promotions, the largest above and below the line marketing and PR firm servicing the high-technology industry in Australia. It was sold in 1995.

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