COVID-19 pandemic in Laos
On 24 March 2020, Laos became the last country in Southeast Asia to report its confirmed case of the virus.On 12 January 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China, which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019.All land borders closed and the last flights departed from Luang Prabang and Vientiane occurred on 1 April.The Embassy of Vietnam in Vientiane confirmed that was a Vietnamese woman died after one week of treatment.[27] On 4 May 2021, Vietnam's Deputy Minister of Health Nguyen Truong Son and 32 experts departed for Laos to set up field hospitals, increase emergency resuscitation and strengthen testing capacity.
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