(Nusa Dua) Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen tested positive for COVID-19 on Monday evening while on the Indonesian island of Bali for meetings on the sidelines of the G20, he said. tuesday.
Last weekend he received world leaders, including US President Joe Biden and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, during the ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh.
The test carried out on Monday evening in Indonesia turned out to be positive, the 70-year-old leader wrote on his Facebook account.
“I’m not sure how this virus got to me,” he explained, assuring that he felt “no symptoms”.
As a precaution, he did not attend a dinner with other leaders on Monday evening, he detailed.
Because of his positive test, he will not be able to meet French Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Chinese President Xi Jinping in Bangkok, on the sidelines of the Apec summit, where he had been invited.
Hun Sen, without a mask, hosted the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Friday, which continued over the weekend with numerous meetings with the main partners of the regional bloc, including the United States, Canada, South Korea or Australia. The leaders of these countries are now in the G20.
His return to Cambodia is scheduled for Tuesday during the day.