Fifteen new cases of Covid-19 were recorded on Tuesday raising the total to 2025 including 1,905 recoveries and 117 active cases. Three have died of Covid-19 since the first case was reported in March 2020.
The newly documented cases included six local transmissions in Vientiane and nine imported cases – six in Champassak and three in Savannakhet.
On Monday, a chinese plane loaded with 500,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Vientiane.
Laos is speeding up efforts to have 50% of its population vaccinated against Covid-19 to ensure “herd immunity” in the country by the end of 2021.
“The Party and government will accelerate vaccinating people according to the targets set by the Ministry of Health. Therefore, I would like to ask people of all ethnic groups, civil servants, armed force personnel and police officers to receive vaccine at Cocvid-19 vaccination service centres set up by the Taskforce Committee,” Dr Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh, Director, Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health said at a press conference in Vientiane on Jun 15.
Source: Lao News Agency