Hungarian Covid Runaway Confirmed Positive

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Re: Hungarian Covid Runaway Confirmed Positive

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Do we have information on which flight he was on?
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Judy wrote: Mon Sep 28, 2020 10:12 am Do we have information on which flight he was on?
He arrived on Sunday 13th September from Seoul, so it was either Korean Air or Asiana.
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My understanding is that Cambodian nationals do not need the 72 hour Covid declaration or $2000 cash deposit. It applies to foreign nationals. If he is traveling with a Khmer national he could have been exposed from her.
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Cambodia News, Siem Reap: The Hungarian man was found at around 9 am on September 26, 2020, after a search operation by authorities and the Siem Reap Provincial Health Department, according to the Ministry of Health in a villa in Svay Dangkum Commune, Siem Reap City, and the medical team took him and his wife (no children and no one else with them) to the Siem Reap Provincial Hospital for treatment.

The information received by the Ministry this morning was that after the Hungarian man left Phnom Penh on September 16, 2020 for Siem Reap, he took a taxi alone, stopped to refuel only once on the road, without meeting or touching anyone outside of this taxi.

Arriving in Siem Reap, he remained at home working as a Doctor of Economics (writing a book). On September 17, 2020, he went out to buy paintings at the establishment Angkor, Siem Reap and then returned to his house. As for his wife, because there is a lot of food in the house, she did not go anywhere, only went to the market only once, but they have taken precautionary measures by wearing a mask when leaving the house.

Ministry of Health confirms that currently the emergency response team of the Department of Health in Siem Reap and the Department of Infectious Diseases of the Ministry of Health, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, are continuing to do the necessary work to find the affected people, and the Ministry will continue to provide information to the public of any further developments.
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Backstory on the Quarantine Runaway
The Hungarian man in this case, Dr. István ZELNIK, is a longtime friend of Cambodia and lover of Khmer culture. He first came to Cambodia as a diplomat at the fall of the Khmer Rouge. He seems to have connections in high places.

From his website :
As a young diplomat serving in Vietnam, I was commissioned by the Foreign Ministry of Hungary to travel to the Cambodian capital and assist in the reestablishment of diplomatic relations and the reopening of the Hungarian Embassy following the fall of the Khmer Rouge.

By the order of HE, then the new foreign minister – today prime minister of the Kingdom of Cambodia – I received a secretary, a body guard and a driver to facilitate success in my mission in Cambodia.
https://www.khmersilkdrzelnik.com/

Dr. Zelnik is now a noted collecter of Southeast Asian art who lives in Siem Reap.
From another website:
Dr. István ZELNIK is former highranking Hungarian diplomat, founder of the Southeast Asian Gold museum in Budapest and the Hungarian Southeast Asian Research Institute. As specialist of Southeast Asia and Indochina, he spent several decades there, became an ardent lover of the Art and Culture of the Region. He has been collecting art from Southeast Asia, China and Japan for over 50 years and today owns one of the most important private collection of antique gold, silver, bronze, ivory, porcelain, gemstone, silk, wood, glass in the world.
https://www.fromthecollectionofdrzelnik.com/about-us/
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