lostjeremy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:44 pm Curious if anyone happens to know which country(s) may have chartered Qatar Airways, flight QR3481, to help their citizens get out of Cambodia?

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lostjeremy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 29, 2020 8:44 pm Curious if anyone happens to know which country(s) may have chartered Qatar Airways, flight QR3481, to help their citizens get out of Cambodia?

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France for one. There was a notice from the French Embassy about a flight out of Phnom Penh with Qatar Airways last night with 100 tickets available for French nationals.
the-road/attention-flight-for-france-av ... ml#p408162

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:35 pm This has been reposted from a general coronavirus thread on CEO: newsworthy/outbreak-unidentified-corona ... ml#p408053
It's worth reading the entire article, which makes it sound like a very bad idea to go to a hospital in Cambodia if you have mild symptoms and do not need emergency respiratory care. The expat concerned here says he has no symptoms at present, but is currently sharing a hospital room with others who are sick and infectious.
So if you have mild flu symptoms and think you may have coronavirus, if at all possible, stay home and self-isolate from family and friends.

Quarantine in the Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital
After coming down with a fever three weeks ago, an expat was admitted to Phnom Penh's Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital. In the second of our personal essays looking at life during COVID-19, we publish their personal account of life inside a Cambodian government quarantine
Andrew Haffner (transcribed)
March 27, 2020
This is a transcript of a phone interview conducted with an expat who has been living in Cambodia for more than a year. They have requested that they remain anonymous.

For the first few days, you don’t think you’ll be here very long – and then you’re just stuck in a room. After that first wave of very painful experiences, things got better and you get used to it. You feel some sort of acceptance and indifference, you make a routine.

From when I first got here, things went well for a while until four new people came in. There are only 10 beds here in one big room. First, we were three, then five and then nine before they brought in an older french tourist with severe symptoms.

His oxygen saturation level was flashing red on the machine, the doctors told us he had a very high viral load and that we should stay away from him, and wear masks at all times.

Everyone kind of panicked, because some people had started testing negative and were worried about getting infected again. A Khmer national and the older French tourists showed severe symptoms and needed to go on the oxygen tank.

When I came here they went all crazy, it was horrible, the longest thirty minutes of my life. Hospital staff, security, bystanders, they all gather thirty metres from you, take pictures, run away, they all get scared.

I’m just very happy that my name didn’t get published, because some foreigners here had their passport photos shared on social media. So I’m happy mine wasn’t all over the news.
https://southeastasiaglobe.com/cambodia ... uarantine/

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 3:03 pm

CEOCambodiaNews wrote: ↑Mon Mar 23, 2020 11:47 am Breaking News, 4 hours ago.

The Chinese Government Sends A Team of Medical Experts on COVID-19 to Cambodia
2020/03/23
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Geng Shuang announces:

To help Cambodia fight the COVID-19 pandemic, the Chinese government has decided to send a team of medical experts to Cambodia. The team, organized by the National Health Commission, consists of experts selected by the Health Commission of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The team left for Cambodia on March 23.
https://www.fmprc.gov.cn/mfa_eng/xwfw_6 ... 9571.shtml

7 Chinese Medical Experts Arrive in Cambodia to Help Combat COVID-19
AKP Phnom Penh, March 23, 2020 --
A team of seven medical experts with medical supplies arrived at the Phnom Penh International Airport this morning.

They were warmly welcomed upon their arrival at the airport by H.E. Mam Bunheng, Minister of Health, Chinese Ambassador to Cambodia H.E. Wang Wentian, and other senior health officials.
https://www.akp.gov.kh/post/detail/28386