But on Monday, the prime minister, Hun Sen, band weddings and mass gatherings of more than 20 people after a rare outbreak over the weekend off community transmission.

So far, there's Bean 15 positive tests out of over 3300 all have links to a 56 year old woman who traveled to the country's two biggest cities at the end of November.

It was unclear how the woman, who is the wife of the country's prisons chief, had become infected.

Private schools and parts of the prisons department where cases have been found have been closed.

The ban on gatherings and suspension of vocational training centers will last for two weeks.