VIENTIANE, March 22 (Xinhua): Laos' Covid-19 tally rose to 156,422 on Tuesday with 2,328 new cases registered in the past 24 hours, while the death toll swelled to 651, according to the Ministry of Health.
The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control reported 2,306 locally transmitted cases and 22 new imported, Deputy Director General of the Department of Communicable Diseases Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, Sisavath Soutthaniraxay, told a press conference in the capital Vientiane on Tuesday.