Doc67 wrote: ↑Thu Feb 13, 2020 7:25 pm Don't worry, a Cambodian government working group is on the case! Nothing to fear.

"Pol Maj Gen Chuon Narin, a Preah Sihanouk provincial police, said that a government working group is aboard the ship to give medical checks to the more than 2,200 passengers and crew before they are allowed to disembark".
https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/18567 ... oronavirus

In sickness and health, Cambodia kowtows to China
Prime Minister HE praised by Beijing for his comparatively lax handling of the coronavirus outbreak
Cambodian leader HE is apparently not worried about the possibility of the deadly and fast-spreading coronavirus killing anyone in his Southeast Asian nation. But he is clearly concerned about maintaining healthy diplomatic and economic relations with China.

On February 13, his government allowed over 2,200 people traveling on the Westerdam cruise ship to dock at its Sihanoukville port after the vast vessel was turned away by five other countries due to fears its passengers might be virally infected.

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In another apparent nod to Beijing, HE has said everyone in Cambodia should take off their medical face masks and refuse to wear them.

“The prime minister doesn’t wear a mask, so why do you?” he angrily railed at reporters during a news conference in the capital Phnom Penh in recent days.

HE has also rejected calls to ban flights from China, which reportedly flew at least 3,000 Chinese travelers direct from Wuhan to Cambodia so far this year.

“There is no need to stop flights from China, because doing so would kill our economy and destroy ties with China,” HE said.
China is Cambodia’s closest ally and biggest foreign investor. More than 250,000 Chinese citizens currently live in Cambodia, comprising about 60% of all foreign residents in a country