VIENTIANE, Oct. 30 (Xinhua): Laos' National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control on Saturday reported 856 new locally transmitted COovid-19 cases.
Laos recorded 858 new cases of Covid-19 across the country with a new outbreak in northern Laos' Luang Namtha province, Deputy Director General of the National Centre for Laboratory and Epidemiology under the Lao Ministry of Health, Bouaphan Khamphaphongphan, told a press conference in Lao capital Vientiane on Saturday.
Two imported cases were recorded in Xayaboury province.
The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Laos has reached 39,586 with 62 deaths, Bouaphan said.
Meanwhile, an 83-year-old woman in Mai Village, Sikhottabong District, Vientiane Capital, passed away at Mittaphab Hospital on Friday night (Oct 29).
She had been vaccinated against Covid-19 with two doses of the Sinopharm vaccine and had suffered from hypertension.
Laos now has 6,672 active cases of Covid-19 and 557 people recovered and were discharged from hospitals around the country. - - Xinhua
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