Hanoi (Vietnam), March 20: Vietnam reported 150,618 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down 12,556 cases from Friday, according to the Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 150,606 domestically transmitted and 12 imported.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 21,071 cases on Saturday, followed by the central NgheAn province with 11,099 cases, and the northern PhuTho province with 6,681 cases.
On the same day, health authorities also documented 274,111 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in three northern localities of Hanoi, Nam Dinh, and Bac Ninh.
The infections brought the total tally to 7,791,841, with 41,817 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 3,991,393 COVID-19 patients, or 51 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Around 201.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 184.5 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 Saturday, it has registered nearly 7.8 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the ministry.
Source: Xinhua
