Hanoi (Vietnam), April 9: Vietnam logged 39,334 new COVID-19 cases on Friday, down 6,552 from Thursday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 39,333 domestically transmitted and one imported.
Localities reporting the highest number of COVID-19 infections in the past 24 hours included the Vietnamese capital Hanoi with 2,897 new cases, the northern Yen Bai province with 2,115 and the northern Bac Giang province with 2,052 cases.
On Friday, health authorities also documented 25,763 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in Bac Giang province.
The infections brought the total tally in Vietnam to 10,135,789, with 42,768 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 8,455,675 COVID-19 patients, or 83 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Over 208.2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 191 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 Friday, it has registered more than 10.1 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry.
Source: Xinhua
