Cambodia: Another US diplomat tests Covid-19 positive; tourism down by 65%

Local farmers take off rice seedlings at a rice paddy field during the rainy season in Tonle Om village on the outskirts of Phnom Penh, Cambodia. - AP

PHNOM PENH, Aug 4 (Xinhua): Cambodia confirmed on Tuesday that one more US diplomat tested positive for Covid-19, bringing the total number of infected US diplomats in the country to four.

A statement from the Health Ministry described the latest U.S. patient as a senior diplomat at the US embassy to Cambodia, who had traveled from the United States to Cambodia recently via a connecting flight in South Korea.