PHNOM PENH, March 26 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia's Ministry of Health (MoH) said on Thursday that two more persons tested positive for COVID-19, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the kingdom to 98.

The two new patients are Indonesian men, the ministry said in a statement, adding that they traveled to Siem Reap province from Bangkok, Thailand.

"A 41-year-old man and a 44-year-old man tested positive for COVID-19 by the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia and they have been placed under quarantine for treatment at the Siem Reap provincial hospital," it said.

According to the statement, the two men were first tested positive for the virus by Phyathai Hospital in Bangkok, but because they could not afford medical costs there, they traveled to Cambodia for free treatment.

Meanwhile, the statement said that a 34-year-old Swedish man, who had no any symptoms of the COVID-19, tested positive for the COVID-19 by the Pasteur Institute of Cambodia on Thursday, a day after he came to have his health tested for a health certificate.

But without waiting for his test result, the man left Cambodia Wednesday night for Thailand via a Bangkok Airways flight, the statement said, adding that the Swede was not included as a new case for treatment in Cambodia.

To date, 11 of the 98 patients in Cambodia have recovered and been discharged from hospitals, according to the statement. Enditem

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