HANOI, Mar 11 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam reported 160,676 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, down 3,920 from Wednesday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 160,661 domestically transmitted and 15 imported cases.
Vietnamese capital Hanoi, remained the pandemic hotspot with 30,157 cases yesterday, followed by central Nghe An province with 11,141 cases, and northern Phu Tho province with 5,891 cases.
On the same day, the health authorities also documented 57,783 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in three provinces of Thanh Hoa, Vinh Phuc, and Binh Dinh.
The infections brought the total tally to 5,260,495, with 41,157 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,908,365 COVID-19 patients, or 55 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
More than 198.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 181.9 million shots on people aged 18 and above, said the ministry.
Vietnam has by far gone through four coronavirus waves of increasing scale, complication, and infectivity. As of yesterday, it registered over 5.25 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, since the start of the current wave in Apr, 2021, said the health ministry.– NNN-VNA
