Source: Xinhua| 2020-03-15 13:49:32|Editor: zyl
PHNOM PENH, March 15 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Sunday banned entry of visitors from Iran for a month in a bid to curb the spread of the COVID-19.
The 30-day ban on foreigners will take effect from March 18 at midnight, said a Ministry of Healths statement.
“Recently, the Kingdom of Cambodia has subsequently detected the COVID-19 on foreigners in different nationalities, which requires immediate measures to prevent the spread and importation of the COVID-19 into Cambodia, Minister of Health Mam Bunheng said in the statement.
Therefore, the Ministry of Health takes measures to ban foreigners from Iran from entering the country for 30 days, effective on March 18, 2020, he added.
On Saturday, the Southeast Asian country also barred the entry of visitors from five countries, namely Italy, Germany, Spain, France and the United States, for a month, starting from March 17 at midnight.
Bunheng said, according to the World Health Organization, the COVID-19 is present in 117 countries and regions as of March 12.
For Cambodia, the country has so far 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, as the Cambodian victim has been receiving treatment at the Siem Reap provincial hospital, and the rest are being treated at hospitals in Phnom Penh, capital of Cambodia.
On Saturday, the government allowed all public and private school students in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap City to take an early vacation in order to curb the virus spread.
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No ban people from China since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak until now. Now, he's banning people from these 5 European countries. Hun Sen, do you care about your people at all? Have you been injected with some obedient drug by China?
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