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Cambodia announced to ban entries of foreigners from Italy, Germany, Spain, France, and the United States for 30 Days to prevent Covid-19, effective from 17 March 2020, according to Ministry of Health’s press release dated 14 March.

Cambodia has confirmed seven cases of Covid-19, including:

1. a 60-year-old Chinese man tested positive on 27 January when he flew from Wuhan to Sihanoukville. However, he recovered and returned home.

2. a 38-year-old Cambodian man in Siem Reap on 7 March, believed to be transmitted from the Japanese businessman. He is being hospitalised in Siem Reap hospital.

3. a 65-year-old British woman, a passenger on Viking Cruise Journey, was tested positive on 10 March 2020 in Kompong Cham province. The woman was infected with the virus from a Vietnamese woman who flew by plane together from London to Hanoi on 2 March. On 5 March, the 65-year-old flew from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh before taking the cruise from Ho Chi Minh to Phnom Penh and then to Kompong Cham.

4. a 73-year-old British man on Viking Cruise Journey tested positive on 11 March in Kompong Cham.

5. a 69-year old British woman on Viking Cruise Journey tested positive on 11 March in Kompong Cham.

6. a 49-year-old Canadian tested positive on 13 March in Phnom Penh.

7. a 33-year old Belgian tested positive on 13 March in Phnom Penh.

That’s why having 2 or more passports is beneficial

But flights from china where never banned

Too little, too late.

AKP Phnom Penh, March 14, 2020 --

Foreigners from five countries have been banned from entering Cambodia, a move to prevent possible spread of the deadly COVID-19.

In an announcement of the Ministry of Health dated Mar. 14, foreigners from Italy, Germany, Spain, France, and United States are not allowed to enter Cambodia for 30 days.

The ban will come into force from Mar. 17, stated the announcement, signed by H.E. Mam Bunheng, Minister of Health.

The ban was imposed due to the growing COVID-19 infection cases in those foreign countries.

There are currently seven confirmed cases of COVID-19 infection in Cambodia - a Cambodian man, a Chinese tourist, three British tourists, a Canadian man and a Belgian man. The Chinese man has been successfully cured and returned to his home countries.

According to Dr. Ly Sovann, a Spokesperson for the Ministry of Health, the six infected foreigners are imported cases, while the Cambodian case was in direct contact with a Japanese infected man.

https://www.akp.gov.kh/post/detail/27871

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meanwhile:

Is it a passport ban or travel history ban?

Is any passport holder affected or only those that have been in the affected countries?

Does the ban also affect for example a Chinese coming from Italy or not?

^^ Yep, even if you haven't been back to Europe for years, you are on the contagious ban list. The list is about your passport nationality and not about the countries that you have visited recently. Makes sense.

Well, that's what Chinese passport holders have had to face globally as well: Signalled as possibly contagiousand non-desirable because of their nationality. We can look forward to more of this as the epidemic spreads to other countries.

And that the only countries?

but people from these countries can still arrive from say Vietnam if they show no visits to the restricted entry countries?

Still unlcear

I am from the states as i hold a us passport, but have not been to the states in over 2 1/2 years
so can I or cant i travel to Cambodia from Thailand?

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