Cambodia asks people having contact with infected Japanese to seek tests
Cambodia’s Ministry of Health on March 5 urged those who had close contact with a Japanese man infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to urgently seek for health tests.
Director of the Communicable Disease Control Department of Cambodia Ly Sovann (Photo: en.freshnewsasia.com)
Phnom Penh (VNA) – Cambodia’s Ministry of Health on March 5 urged those who had close contactwith a Japanese man infected with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 to urgentlyseek for health tests.
Director of theCommunicable Disease Control Department Ly Sovann announced that individualswho had contact with the Japanese man infected must contact the HealthMinistry’s hotline 115.
According to LySovann, at least 44 in Cambodia had contact with the Japanese man and they willbe quarantined for 14 days despite that they have been healthy.
Earlier, spokeswomanof the ministry Or Vandin confirmed that the Japanese had direct contact withfour people in Cambodia. He was working for a non-governmental organisation inSiem Reap.
Japanese healthauthorities previously announced that the Japanese passenger on VietnamAirlines’ VN814 flight from Siem Reap to HCM City on March 3 tested positivefor SARS-CoV-2.
He then took transitflight VN340 to Japan’s Nagoya city the same day./.
All passengers, crewmembers and staff, who had contact with a Japanese passenger tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 on Vietnam Airlines’ VN340 flight, have been put into quarantine, the Health Ministry reported on March 4.
Ho Chi Minh City’s Centre for Disease Control (CDC) is coordinating with relevant agencies to verify the identities and addresses of five passengers travelling with the Japanese passenger, who was found to have been infected with the coronavirus, on flight VN814 on March 3.
All people who enter Vietnam from Cambodia are required to fill in medical declaration forms amid complicated developments of the acute respiratory disease caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19), said Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long.
Fifty-seven people related to the flights a Japanese passenger with SARS-CoV-2 boarding have been put under quarantine, the disease control centre of Ho Chi Minh City said on March 5.
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Director of the Communicable Disease Control Department of Cambodia Ly Sovann (Photo: en.freshnewsasia.com) 
