Phnom Penh (FN), Mar. 14 – In response to the Covid-19 global pandemic, and in partnership with Cambodian stakeholders, the US Government is committing through US Agency for International Development (USAID) an additional USD 2 million of immediate assistance in Cambodia for risk communication, community engagement, and laboratory support, according to the USAID Cambodia’s statement on Facebook dated 14 March 2020.

“The United States has a longstanding partnership with the Cambodian people on public health, and specifically efforts to combat infectious diseases. This close collaboration will be sustained as we move forward together to address these latest challenges,” the statement added.

As of 14 March 2020, 4 p.m., Cambodia has confirmed seven cases of Covid-19, including:

1. a 60-year-old Chinese man tested positive on 27 January when he flew from Wuhan to Sihanoukville. However, he recovered and returned home.

2. a 38-year-old Cambodian man in Siem Reap on 7 March, believed to be transmitted from the Japanese businessman. He is being hospitalised in Siem Reap hospital.

3. a 65-year-old British woman, a passenger on Viking Cruise Journey, was tested positive on 10 March 2020 in Kompong Cham province. The woman was infected with the virus from a Vietnamese woman who flew by plane together from London to Hanoi on 2 March. On 5 March, the 65-year-old flew from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh before taking the cruise from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh and then to Kompong Cham.

4. a 73-year-old British man on Viking Cruise Journey tested positive on 11 March in Kompong Cham.

5. a 69-year old British woman on Viking Cruise Journey tested positive on 11 March in Kompong Cham.

6. a 49-year-old Canadian man tested positive on 13 March in Phnom Penh.

7. a 33-year old Belgian man tested positive on 13 March in Phnom Penh.
=FRESH NEWS