People are waiting for COVID-19 testing in Vientiane, Laos (Photo: VNA)The new cases lifted the country’s total number of infectionsand deaths to 1,905 and three, respectively. Meanwhile, 1,355 patients in Laos havebeen given the all-clear from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.
On the same day, Thailand confirmed 34 new COVID-19 fatalities andanother 3,759 cases, bringing the accumulated toll to 954 deaths and the numberof infections since the start of the pandemic to 144,976.
The country’s Phuket province is set to reopen for foreign tourists from July 1. It has vaccinated 50 percent of the provincialpopulation out of its target of 70 percent of people on the resort island.
To realise this plan, Phuket needs to vaccinate at least 466,587 people, equivalentto 933,174 doses of COVID-19 vaccine.
Phuket will be the first Thai locality to re-open for visitors. Ten others willre-open in October.
Under the plan, fully vaccinated foreign tourists will beallowed to enter Thailand via Phuket, where they will not have to undergo14-day quarantine./.
VNA
