PHNOM PENH, Mar 14 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia today announced restrictions on visitors from five countries for a month, in a bid to prevent the spread of the COVID-19.
“The Ministry of Health decided to temporarily ban foreigners from Italy, Germany, Spain, France and the United States, from entering Cambodia for 30 days,” Health Minister, Mam Bunheng said, in a statement.
He said the restrictions will take effect from Mar 17, at midnight.
The minister said, the measure came after recently, Cambodia detected COVID-19 cases on foreigners from several countries.
He said, the World Health Organisation declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic and the virus is currently present in more than 110 countries.
To date, Cambodia recorded a total of seven COVID-19 patients, including a Chinese man, a Cambodian man, three British nationals, a Canadian man, and a Belgian man.
The Chinese patient had recovered and returned to China, while the Cambodian victim is receiving treatment at the Siem Reap provincial hospital, and the rest are being treated at hospitals in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.– NNN-AKP
