December 13

The number of COVID-19 cases in Laos increased to 90,458 on Monday after over 1,100 new cases were reported in the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health.

Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Diseases Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, Sisavath Soutthaniraxay, told a press conference in Lao capital Vientiane on Monday that the country recorded 1,138 new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases.

Of the new cases, Vientiane again reported the highest number with 533.

Sisavath said three new deaths were also recorded, bringing the death toll to 250 in the country as of Monday.

The new deaths involved a 58-year-old man in Vientiane, a 70-year-old man in Bolikhamxay, a 68-year-old woman in Vientiane.

All of them had suffered from hypertension, and had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.

xinhua