HANOI, Feb. 26 (Xinhua): Vietnam registered 77,982 new Covid-19 infections on Saturday, down 813 cases from Friday, according to the Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, included 77,970 domestically transmitted and 12 imported.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 10,783 cases on Saturday, also its new daily record, followed by the central Nghe An province with 3,985 cases, and the northern Vinh Phuc province with 2,995 cases.
On the same day, health authorities also documented 20,894 Covid-19 cases detected earlier in the northern Thai Nguyen province.
The infections brought the total tally to 3,219,177, with 40,050 deaths.
Nationwide, as many as 2,376,046 Covid-19 patients, or 74 per cent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Around 193.3 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 176.5 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 over 3.2 million locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the ministry. - Xinhua
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