According to Phonepaseuth Ounaphom, director general of theministry’s Department of Hygiene and Health Promotion, this decline do not meanthat the virus has disappeared and that all measures relating to COVID-19prevention and control should continue to be practiced.
Infections are also on the wane because more people haveimmunity to the virus after being vaccinated.
As of October 3, 215,880 COVID-19 cases have been recordedin Laos and 665 people have died from the virus. The rate of people injected withthe first and second doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have so far reached 80.9%and 71.1%./.