Participants of the COVID-19 technical briefing. Credit: WHO/S Khounpaseuth It has been more than four months since COVID-19 cases was first reported in the country on 24 March 2020.
There have been regular updates by the Ministry of Health using web telecasts by the Centre of Communication and Education for Health (CCEH) to update the general public on the COVID-19 situation in the country.
The Director-General of CCEH Mr Visith Khamlusa said “We are pleased to invite the chief epidemiologist of the National Center for Laboratory and Epidemiology (NCLE) to join this COVID-19 technical briefing to journalists to provide updates on testing, surveillance and transmission.