PHNOM PENH, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Thursday confirmed one new imported COVID-19 case, raising the total number of infections in the kingdom to 281, the health ministry said in a statement.
The latest case was found on a 26-year-old Indonesian man, who arrived in Cambodia on Tuesday from Indonesia via a connecting flight in Singapore, the statement said.
The testing result showed on Wednesday that he was positive for COVID-19, according to the statement, and "currently, the patient is undergoing treatment at an isolation ward in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital in Phnom Penh."
According to the statement, the remaining 112 passengers on the same flight have been placed under a 14-day mandatory quarantine at various quarantine centers in the capital.
The Southeast Asian nation has so far recorded a total of 281 confirmed COVID-19 cases, it said, adding that none have died and 276 have recovered. Enditem
