Covid-19 has infected 218 people and claimed two lives nationwide over the past 24 hours, bringing the total of confirmed Covid-19 cases to 141,301 including 3,138 active cases and 612 deaths, according to the National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.
The newly infections were detected among 3,014 people tested for Covid-19 yesterday.
Some 38 Covid-19 patients were discharged from hospitals nationwide, according to Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry of Health, Dr Sisavath Soutthanilaxay.
Of the new confirmed cases, 204 were classified as domestic infections including 78 in Xayaboury, 29 in Xieng Khuang, 24 in Vientiane, 20 in Attapeu and 10 each in Huaphan, Borikhamxay and Savannakhet.
On Feb 18, the Lao PDR received 594,000 doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from the COVAX Facility – a partnership co-led by Gavi, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI), and the World Health Organization (WHO), with UNICEF as a key delivery partner.
The arrival of this latest shipment is part of the COVAX Facility’s ongoing efforts to ensure global equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines.
This new batch of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccines makes it the tenth shipment of COVID-19 vaccines that has been delivered to the Lao PDR through the COVAX Facility, following a recent donation of almost 1.7 million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine through COVAX.
Combined with previously received COVID-19 vaccines via the COVAX Facility, this new arrival will provide full vaccination to over 4.1 million people or approximately 56% of the Lao population.
Source: Lao News Agency