More than 3,000 Chinese nationals flew into Cambodia from Wuhan after the coronavirus outbreak, before Chinese authorities locked down the city on Thursday to contain its spread, officials said.
The State Secretariat of Civil Aviation on Tuesday confirmed Chinese aviation data that approximately 3,078 Chinese left Wuhan city before the lockdown, the Khmer Times reported on Wednesday.
The data said that 1,539 of them took direct flights to Preah Sihanouk airport and 1,539 to Siem Reap airport.
