Pandemic tests Thai-Cambodian relations as new cases surge Neighboring countries scramble to combat the latest outbreaks amid dire forecasts A health worker puts on full personal protective equipment before going inside a Covid-19 field hospital, recently set up to combat the spread of the contagion, in Bangkok on April 10. (Photo: AFP) Relations between Cambodia and Thailand are being sorely tested by the pandemic after the number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in both countries dramatically surged, driven almost exclusively by an outbreak of the UK variant. Thailand has been quick to implicate Cambodia, which traced its third local outbreak — known here as the February 20 Community Event — to two young Chinese women who breached quarantine and went out partying in Phnom Penh nightclubs.