Phnom Penh
It is an unexpected turnaround. Saturday, a former passenger from Westerdam , a cruise ship that docked in Cambodia last Thursday, tested positive for Covid-19 during a stopover in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Also tested, her husband is not infected. Spotted because she had a fever, she was on her way to the United States, her country of origin, after leaving Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital. The 83-year-old American had disembarked from the cruise ship a few days earlier in Sihanoukville, Cambodia, after receiving the green light from local authorities. No case of coronavirus was then officially suspected on board. Nothing to do with the situation of the Diamond Princess , quarantined in Japan, which has 454 cases and constitutes a major epidemic center. No way of knowing for the moment when and how the passenger of the Westerdam was contaminated.
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