PHNOM PENH, Oct 10 (NNN-AKP) – Cambodia today confirmed a new imported COVID-19 case, raising the total number of infections in the country to 283, the Ministry of Health (MoH) said in a press statement.
The latest case was found on a 33-year-old French woman, who arrived in Cambodia on Thursday from France, via a connecting flight in South Korea, the statement said.
“The result of her samples’ test showed (on Friday) that she was positive for the COVID-19,” MoH’s secretary of state and spokeswoman, Or Vandine, said in the statement.
“Currently, the patient is undergoing treatment at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital, in the capital, Phnom Penh,” she added.
The remaining 58 passengers on the same flight have been placed under a 14-day mandatory quarantine, at various quarantine centres in the capital, said Vandine.
The Southeast Asian nation has so far recorded a total of 283 confirmed COVID-19 cases, she said, adding that, none have died and 277 have recovered.– NNN-AKP
