Nusa Dua:
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on Tuesday he had tested positive for Covid-19 after hosting more than a dozen world leaders, including US President Joe Biden, at a summit in Phnom Penh.
Asia’s longest-reigning leader said in a Facebook post that he got the positive result upon arriving in Indonesia for a G20 summit but experienced no symptoms.
Hun Sen had maskless meetings with leaders from eight Southeast Asian countries, as well as the United States, China, Japan, Australia and Canada at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, which concluded on Sunday.
“Dear compatriots! Now I have tested positive for Covid-19,” he wrote on Facebook, saying he had been tested every day, including before flying to the G20 in Bali, and all results were negative.
“I’m not sure when this virus got to me, but when I arrived, the Indonesians took a sample from me in the evening and in the morning it confirmed Covid-19 positive.”
He said it was “lucky” that he arrived in Bali late and missed a dinner with other leaders.
For security reasons, the Cambodian delegation will return home on Tuesday, he said, meaning he will miss the meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron at the APEC summit in Bangkok later this week.
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