FILE PHOTO: A view of a closed market, during a 14-day citywide lockdown, implemented due to a rising number of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) cases, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, April 17, 2021. REUTERS/Cindy Liu/File Photo
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia began setting up thousands of hospital beds in two wedding party halls on Sunday to cope with an influx of COVID-19 patients in a country that up until recently had largely managed to contain infections.
Cambodia also reported a daily record 618 new coronavirus cases on Sunday, its health ministry said, in a spike in infections following an outbreak first detected in late February.
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