Vietnam logs 4,899 new Covid-19 cases on Friday (Oct 29) as vaccine donations arrives from Australia and Cambodia

Cambodian Health Ministry’s Secretary of State Or Vandine handed over the 200,000 doses of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines to Vietnamese Deputy Minister of Health Tran Van Thuan (right) during a ceremony on Friday (Oct 29, 2021). - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, Oct. 29 (Xinhua): Vietnam recorded 4,899 new confirmed cases of Covid-19 on Friday, including 4,889 locally transmitted and 10 imported, according to the Ministry of Health.

Most of the community cases were detected in southern localities, including 977 in Ho Chi Minh City, and 697 each in Binh Duong and Dong Nai province.