VIENTIANE (XINHUA) – Laos registered 1,508 new COVID-19 cases over the past 24 hours, exceeding the 1,000 mark for the first time since January 19, bringing the national tally to 150,639. Deputy Director General Latsamy Vongkhamsao of the Department of Communicable Disease Control under the Lao Ministry of Health, told a press conference in the