Two-week lockdown imposed in Cambodia's beachtown hideout - Preah Sihanouk city - to curb Covid-19


PHNOM PENH, April 24 (Xinhua): A two-week stay-at-home lockdown was imposed in Cambodia's coastal city of Preah Sihanouk on Friday in efforts to curb a surge in the local Covid-19 cases.

The Southeast Asian nation on Friday logged 655 new confirmed cases of Covid-19, including 113 in Preah Sihanouk province, the Ministry of Health said, adding that the kingdom has so far recorded a total of 8,848 confirmed cases with 61 deaths.

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