C-19 nightmare: 200+ cases, 60+ hotspots, What’s Next?

The third community outbreak is worsening day by day with 60 more people tested positive for COVID-19 as well as 16 new hotspots being identified by the Health Ministry yesterday. So far the total number of infections linked to the February 20 Community Incident has reached 196 with the number of identified hotspots now at 63.

The Health Ministry yesterday reported 58 new cases linked to the incident, while Phnom Penh’s Russey Keo district governor Chea Pisey reported the other two. Health Ministry spokeswoman Youk Sambath said that from February 20 to yesterday, the samples of 6,700 people known to have been exposed to COVID-19 in the incident had been tested and 194, including 96 women, have been found to be infected. Most of them are Chinese nationals.

She said that there were 65 reported positive cases yesterday, of whom 58 were linked to the February 20 incident and seven were imported ones. Sambath said the new cases were 41 Chinese, nine Vietnamese, five Cambodians, one Korean, one Singaporean and one Japanese.

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