HANOI, Feb. 6 (Xinhua): Vietnam reported 14,112 new Covid-19 cases on Sunday, including 14,105 locally transmitted and seven imported, according to the Ministry of Health.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of infections on Sunday, 2,797 cases, followed by central Da Nang city with 927 cases and central Quang Nam province with 853 cases.
The infections brought the country's total tally to 2,341,971, and the death toll stood at 38,324. Nationwide, 2,112,715 patients have so far recovered.
The country registered 63 Covid-19-related deaths on Sunday (Feb 6), the lowest since October 29.
Some 182.2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines, including 28.8 million third shots, have been administered, said the ministry.
Vietnam has by far gone through four coronavirus waves of increasing scale, complication and infectivity.
As of Sunday, the country has registered over 2.3 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in late April last year, according to the ministry. - Xinhua
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