The passenger from the Westerdam, which docked in Cambodia last week after being turned away elsewhere, was later found to have the virus in Malaysia, officials there said.
China recorded more than 2, new cases in the past 70 hours.
(Malaysia says a cruise ship passenger tested positive, but others call the results unconfirmed.)
An American woman who disembarked from a cruise ship in Cambodia, after the vessel was refused entry at ports across Asia over fears of a coronavirus outbreak, was preliminarily found to have the coronavirus on her arrival in Malaysia, health officials there said.
But the cruise line, Holland America Line, said that the test was not a confirmation, and Cambodia called on Malaysia to conduct further testing.
Malaysia’s announcement on Saturday that the 86 – year-old had contracted the virus prompted concerns that other passengers who had left Cambodia for their home countries could be infected.
The ship, the Westerdam, was denied entr y by five countries over two weeks for fear that passengers might be carrying the disease, even though the cruise line said no cases of the virus had been found aboard the vessel.
Cambodia eventually agreed to accept the ship, and it docked in the city of Sihanoukville on Thursday. Cambodia’s prime minister, Hun Sen, and the United States ambassador, Patrick Murphy, were on hand to welcome the passengers ashore.
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