Cambodian PM congratulates China on progress in containing outbreak

Cambodian people resting near the famous Wat Phnom, which is a tourist site and a Buddhist shrine, in Phnom Penh on Sunday (March 15). Cambodia to date has only seven confirmed Covid-19 patients. - AFP

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen on Sunday (March 15) congratulated China on its progress in controlling and containing the spread of the Covid-19 (coronavirus) outbreak.

"On behalf of the Royal Government of Cambodia, I'd like to express my congratulations to the People's Republic of China on its progress and effort to defeat the virus," he said during the opening ceremony of a river festival in northwestern Battambang province and his speech was live broadcast on BTV News channel.