Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen tested positive for COVID-19 days after hosting world leaders, including President Joe Biden, for a series of intergovernmental summits in the capital of Phnom Penh.
A maskless Biden had a bilateral meeting with Hun, the chairman of this year’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit, last weekend before sitting beside him during Saturday’s East Asia Summit Gala Dinner. They also attended the same ASEAN and East Asia summit working sessions and stood together for the traditional “family photograph” with other heads of government.
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President Biden met with Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia to discuss the importance of ASEAN centrality. pic.twitter.com/VvlVLQTVCp
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) November 12, 2022
Biden tested negative for COVID-19 on Tuesday morning local time, according to the White House, which added that Hun is not considered “a close contact,” per guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Biden tested negative for Covid, per White House. Said last night he had a cold. This morning info came that the Cambodian PM, whom Biden spent time with at the ASEAN summit on the weekend, has Covid. @POTUS “not considered a close contact as defined by the CDC,” per White House
— Sebastian Smith (@SebastianAFP) November 15, 2022
Hun disclosed his diagnosis earlier Tuesday on Facebook, saying it was “lucky” he missed a G-20 sideline dinner hosted Monday by French President Emmanuel Macron. But he downplayed the development, describing it as “no strange phenomenon,” according to a translation.
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Biden tested positive and quarantined for COVID-19 twice in July and received a dose of the updated vaccine last month.
The president is attending the G-20 summit in Bali, Indonesia, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
