HANOI, Mar 2 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam logged 98,762 new COVID-19 infections yesterday, its new daily record, up 4,377 cases from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 98,743 domestically transmitted and 19 imported.
The Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, remained the pandemic hotspot with 13,323 cases, yesterday, also its highest-ever daily number, followed by northern Quang Ninh province, with 4,011 cases, and northern Bac Ninh province with 3,933 cases.
On the same day, the health authorities also documented 15,382 COVID-19 cases detected earlier, in northern Ha Giang province.
The infections brought the total tally to 3,557,629, with 40,338 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,479,883 COVID-19 patients, or 70 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Around 195 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 178.2 million shots on people aged 18 and above, said the ministry.
Vietnam has by far gone through four waves of increasing scale, complication, and infectivity.
As of yesterday, it has registered over 3.55 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, since the start of the current wave in Apr, 2021, said the health ministry.– NNN-VNA
