HANOI, Feb. 14 (Xinhua): Vietnam recorded 29,413 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, the highest daily infections in the country since the beginning of the pandemic, up by 3,034 cases from Sunday, its ministry of health said.
The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 29,403 domestically transmitted and 10 imported.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of infections on Monday, with 3,507 cases, followed by the northern Hai Duong province with 1,915 cases and the northern Hai Phong city with 1,489 cases.
The new infections brought the total tally to 2,540,273 with 39,037 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,232,947 Covid-19 patients, or 88 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
More than 186 million doses of Covid19 vaccines, including some 32 million third shots, have been administered in the Southeast Asian country, according to the ministry.
Vietnam has by far gone through four coronavirus waves of increasing scale, complication, and infectivity.
As of Monday, it has registered over 2.5 million locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since the start of the current wave in late April 2021.
More than 186 million vaccine doses have been administered in the country to date, with more than 79 million people receiving two doses and 32 million having a third booster shot. - Xinhua
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