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Vientiane (VNA) - Laos reported a decline in the daily number of new COVID-19 cases which stood at a double-digit figure for the past five days.
In a statement released in the afternoon of May 1, the country’s Ministry of Health said that 64 new cases were detected during the past 24 hours in four provinces nationwide, of them 49 were in Vientiane.
All 18 Lao provinces are under lockdown until May 5. The country to date has logged 821 cases, with 773 of them being reported from the start of April.
The Department of Communicable Diseases Control at the Laos’ Health Ministry announced that as many as 38 Vietnamese people in Thatluang in downtown Vientiane tested positive once with the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 on April 30.