Delta Plus variant spreads in Vientiane

The Health Ministry said the Covid-19 variant that was spreading through the capital is the Delta Plus variant.

Director-general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh, told a press conference yesterday that 52 new imported cases and 162 locally transmitted cases were recorded over the past 24 hours, bringing the total tally to 19,399 cases.