Laos' Covid-19 daily cases exceed 1,000 for first time since January


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VIENTIANE, March 18 (Xinhua): Laos registered 1,508 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time since Jan 19, bringing the national tally to 150,639.

Latsamy Vongkhamsao, deputy director general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, told a press conference in the Lao capital Vientiane on Friday night (March 19) that Laos has logged a total of 1,508 new cases over the past 24 hours including 1,481 local transmissions.

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