HANOI, Mar 27 (NNN-VNA) – Vietnam reported 103,126 new COVID-19 cases yesterday, down 5,853 cases from Friday, according to the Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 103,124 domestically transmitted and two imported cases.
The Vietnamese capital, Hanoi, remained the pandemic hotspot with 9,623 new cases yesterday, followed by the northern Phu Tho province with 4,679 and the central Nghe An province with 4,362.
Yesterday, the health authorities also documented 55,179 COVID-19 cases detected earlier, in the northern Nam Dinh province.
The infections brought the country’s total tally to 8,919,557, with 42,258 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 5,166,117 COVID-19 patients, or 58 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Nearly 204.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 187.7 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 registered over 8.9 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases, since the start of the current wave in Apr, 2021, said the ministry.– NNN-VNA
