Phnom Penh (FN), Mar. 16 – Cambodian Ministry of Health on Monday urged individuals who sit next to a Cambodian man infected with Covid-19 on flight PG933 to get a health test or contact 115.

"A passenger on flight PG933 from Bangkok to Phnom Penh on March 9 tested positive for Covid-19. If you were on the flight and seated No. 22, 23, 24, 25, or 26, you need to contact the Ministry of Health by calling 115 for medical checkup,” according to Dr. Ly Sovann, spokesman for Ministry of Health.

As of 15 March 2020, 11:30 p.m local time, the Kingdom has confirmed twelve 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 tested positive on 13 March in Phnom Penh.

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

8. a 35-year-old French man in Phnom Penh.

9. a four-month old baby of the 35-year-old French man.

10. a Cambodian from France tested positive on 15 March, now being hospitalised at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.

11. a 35-year-old Khmer-Islam in Preah Vihear tested positive on 15 March.

12. a 39-year-old Khmer-Islam in Preah Vihear tested positive on 15 March.
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