General4/8/2020 1:02:06 PM
(KPL) The World Bank’s Regional Vice-President of the East Asia and Pacific Region Tuesday approved US$18 million for the Lao PDR to help the country respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Lao PDR COVID-19 Response Project supports preparedness and emergency response activities including infection prevention and control, case detection and contact tracing, case management and risk communication.
General4/8/2020 12:50:10 PM
(KPL) The United Nations Population Fund, UNFPA, has provided the Government of the Lao Women’s Union crucial supplies to support the emergency response with a particular focus on the special needs of women and girls who will be the most vulnerable groups in the COVID-19 crisis situation.
General4/7/2020 4:14:36 PM
The number of people testing positive for Covid-19 in the Lao PDR has reached 14, a press conference was told this afternoon on April 7,2020.
General4/6/2020 6:55:16 PM
(KPL) On April 6, a total of 119 Japanese citizens and their families boarded a special flight operated by Lao Airlines and have now arrived safely in Japan.
Due to recent travel restrictions and cancellation of international flights caused by the spread of COVID-19, there were many Japanese, both residents and tourists, who could not leave the Lao PDR and was seeking assistance in returning to Japan.
General4/6/2020 6:24:51 PM
(KPL) A returning student from UK has tested positive for Covid-19, taking the total to 12. The student, 20, a resident of Naxay village, Saysettha district, Vientiane Capital flew from Heathrow Airport, London, and had an overnight transit stop in Bangkok,
General4/5/2020 4:00:43 PM
(KPL) The latest Covid-19 case, 11th in the country, is a Papua New Genea man, 55, a staff member at Phu Bia Mining. 89 have reportedly had close contact with the man are being monitored closely by health workers.
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4/3/2020 1:34:31 PM
(KPL) In Xayaboury, more than 600 out of over 7,000 returning workers from Thailand have been allowed to go home after having been quarantined for 14 days at quarantine centres across the province.
General4/3/2020 11:43:10 AM
(KPL/Xinhua) -- The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide has risen above 1 million, according to the new tally from Johns Hopkins University on Thursday afternoon.
General4/2/2020 3:32:02 PM
(KPL) No Covid-19 has been confirmed today. As a result the number of infection cases in the country currently stays at 10 including 7 in Vientiane Capital and 3 in touristy Luang Prabang. There has been no deaths related to Covid-19 in the Lao PDR.
General4/2/2020 12:44:10 PM
(KPL) The COVID-19 pandemic is putting enormous strains on the public health systems around the world, and millions of people in the world’s most advanced economies are in some form of quarantine.
