“November 3 incident” close to end
Suos Yara, deputy chairman of the International Cooperation Committee on Foreign Affairs, recovered from COVID-19 yesterday. Supplied
Today, Prime Minister Hun Sen, as well as those directly and indirectly involved in the “November 3 incident” will be given their fourth and final COVID-19 test.
To ensure that the virus is not spread in the community, those involved were required to self-isolate for 14 days and undergo four health tests for the virus.
The COVID-19 test is being conducted at the Council of Ministers for the government officials and journalists who were directly and indirectly involved. The Prime Minister, some ministers and other high-ranking officials are being tested at home or at the Sokha Hotel.
Ministry of Health spokeswoman Or Vandine called on all those directly and indirectly affected by the “November 3 incident” to take the fourth test today.
“This fourth test is the most important step to make sure that the direct and indirect contacts are not infected with COVID-19,” she said.
As of Sunday, according to the Ministry of Health, there have been a total of 3,918 samples taken due to the “November 3 incident”. Of those, 1,741 took the first test, 825 took the second test, and 1,352 took the third test. All were negative for COVID-19.
Of these tests, only four tested positive, and one of them has since recovered.
In related news, Cambodia registered a new imported case of COVID-19 on a Cambodian American man yesterday, raising the tally of infections to 303.
The Ministry of Health yesterday also reported two recoveries, including Suos Yara, 47, a member of the National Assembly involved in the “November 3 incident”, and a 31-year-old Cambodian woman from Kratie province who arrived in Cambodia on October 19 from Japan via a South Korea flight.
Both tested negative for COVID-19 twice and have been discharged from the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.
The ministry said the other three patients involved in the “November 3 incident” are being treated at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.
The ministry said the 56-year-old Cambodian-American man tested positive for the virus upon his arrival in Phnom Penh on Sunday on a flight from the United States via Taiwan.
He is receiving treatment at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital.
The other 164 passengers who flew with him tested negative for COVID-19 and have been placed in 14-day quarantine at Borey 100 Secondary School and several hotels in Phnom Penh, it said.
A total of 303 people (61 women and 242 men) have tested positive so far, of which 291 have recovered, with 12 patients still receiving treatment at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh.
The total confirmed 303 cases in the Kingdom comprises 188 Cambodians, 45 French, 18 Chinese, 13 Malaysians, nine Indonesians, nine Americans, six British, three Vietnamese, three Canadians, three Indians, two Hungarians, one Belgian, one Kazakh, one Polish and one Pakistani.
Credited: Khmer Times
