Covid-19: Vietnam tourist ups Cambodia's cases to 115

A worker wearing a protective suit sprays disinfectant on a bench in front of a closed restaurant as a preventive measure against the spread of Covid-19 in Cambodia's Kandal province on April 5, 2020. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Cambodia on Tuesday (April 7) confirmed a Vietnamese female-tourist was tested positive for the Covid-19, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the kingdom to 115.

According to a Health Ministry statement, the new patient is a 27-year-old Vietnamese woman, who had visited Bavet City in southeast Cambodia's Svay Rieng province and left the city for Vietnam on March 2, and then returned to Cambodia on March 10.

"The Covid-19 positive woman has been put under quarantine for treatment at the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in (capital Phnom Penh)," it said.

According to the statement, to date, five more Covid-19 patients in Cambodia had recovered, bringing the tally of patients cured in the kingdom to 58. - Xinhua