Laos allows shuttle flights to evacuate foreigners

VIENTIANE (Xinhua): Shuttle flights will be allowed for countries to pick up their citizens from Laos, the Lao foreign minister said when briefing foreign embassies and diplomatic representatives and international organisations here about the Covid-19 situation.

To address problems foreign citizens in Laos may face during the country's lockdown to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, Lao Minister of Foreign Affairs Saleumxay Kommasith presided over a briefing Monday to deliver the new order of the Prime Minister on measures to stop the disease outbreak.