Some 331 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded nationwide over the previous 24 hours, bringing the total to 19,730 including 4,596 active cases and 16 deaths. Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Dr Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh told a press conference today that the number of imported cases is decreasing, but…
Vientiane authority has ordered all enterprises, department stores, supermarkets, minimarts, night markets, clothes shops, building material shops, shops selling household goods, cosmetic shops, electronic shops, phone shops, and wholesale and retail shops to close between Sep 20 and 30 to rein in locally transmitted cases of Covid-19. The ban imposed by the Vientiane Department of…
Hundreds of people demonstrated Tuesday in Australia’s second-largest city to protest coronavirus restrictions the government imposed on the construction industry.Officials announced construction sites in Melbourne would be closed for two weeks amid co…
U.S.-based pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday new “real world” and phase 3 study data show a second shot of its single-dose vaccine about two months after the initial shot increased its effectiveness to 94%.In a news release on i…
Raising competitiveness and strengthening the links between agriculture and tourism will contribute to post-coronavirus disease (COVID-19) recovery and inclusive growth in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (Lao PDR), according to a report by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) released on Sep 17. “Creating quality and productive jobs is among the top priorities of the government’s…
Some 214 new Covid-19 cases have been recorded nationwide over the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 19,399 including 4,255 active cases and 16 deaths. Director General of the Department of Communicable Disease Control, Ministry of Health, Dr Rattanaxay Phetsouvanh told a press conference today that some 5,117 were tested for Covid-19 yesterday. Of…
Health Ministry has urged those who have close contact with risk groups to quarantine themselves and rush to get tested for Covid-19. The number of locally transmitted cases of Covid-19 in the Lao PDR is increasing with most of them linked to in a garment factory in Nongtha Nuea, Chanthabouly district, Vientiane. The rocket surge…
Laos has posted 371 new cases of Covid-19 over the past 24 hours including 303 local transmissions with 225 in Vientiane, according to the National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.Some 68 imported cases were recorded including 1…
Mayor of Vientiane Atsaphangthong Siphandone issued a notice today putting the capital under a strict two-week-long lockdown through Sep 30, 2021.The notice, effective from Sep 19, orders residents in the capital city to stay in their homes except in n…
Millions of Americans who were thrown out of work in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic are now encountering a hot jobs market with businesses eager, even desperate, to hire them.But amid continued spread of the delta COVID-19 variant, workers a…
World leaders are returning to the United Nations in New York this week with a focus on boosting efforts to fight both climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic, which last year forced them to send video statements for the annual gathering.As the corona…
The European Union is pledging to donate 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to low-income countries by mid-2022.European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen made the pledge Wednesday in Strasbourg, France during her annual State of the Europe…
