HANOI, Mar 8 (NNN-VNA) – Daily COVID-19 tally in Vietnam rose to a new record of 147,358 cases yesterday, up 5,222 cases from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 147,335 domestically transmitted and 23 imported cases.
The Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, remained the pandemic hotspot with 32,317 cases yesterday, also its new daily high, followed by central Nghe An province with 10,153 cases, and northern Bac Ninh province with 7,873 cases.
The infections brought the total tally to 4,582,058, with 40,891 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,718,440 COVID-19 patients, or 59 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Over 197.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 180.9 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 nearly 4.6 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, since the start of the current wave in Apr, 2021, said the health ministry.– NNN-VNA
