Laos increases state quarantine requirement to 28 days


VIENTIANE, Aug 7 (Xinhua): Laos has increased the quarantine period for those entering Laos from 14 days to 28 days following cases of community spread by those leaving quarantine.

Sisavath Soutthaniraxay, deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Diseases Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, told a press conference here on Friday that quarantine centers in some provinces are to be expanded in order to better accommodate the large volumes of returning migrant workers.

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