Canceled To Participate In The G20 Summit Due To Positive COVID-19, Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen Calls No Symptoms

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen while chairing the 2022 ASEAN Summit. (Twitter/@ASEAN)

JAKARTA - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen on Tuesday canceled a meeting he was supposed to attend at the G20 Summit in Bali, after testing positive for COVID-19.

This comes days after he hosted more than a dozen world leaders, including US President Joe Biden at the ASEAN summit summit at Phnom Penh.

In his upload on Facebook PM Hun Sen said he got positive results upon arrival in Indonesia, but did not experience any symptoms.

Prime Minister Hun Sen held a maskless meeting with leaders from eight Southeast Asian countries as well as the United States, China, Japan, Australia and Canada at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, which closed on Sunday.

"My beloved friends! Now I have tested positive for COVID-19," he wrote on Facebook, saying he had been tested every day including before flying to the G20 summit in Bali and all the results were negative.

"I'm not sure when this virus will come to me, but when I arrived, Indonesians took samples from me at night and in the morning tested positive for COVID-19," he continued.

He said he was "lucky" arriving late in Bali, so he missed dinner with the other leaders.

For security reasons, the Cambodian delegation will return home on Tuesday, he said, meaning he will miss a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and French President Emmanuel Macron at the APEC summit in Bangkok this weekend.