Vietnam logs 54,995 new Covid-19 cases as total now goes over 9.9 million on Tuesday (April 6)

A health worker prepares to administer a Covid-19 vaccine to a patient at a vaccination centre in Hanoi on Tuesday (April 5). - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, April 5 (Xinhua): Vietnam reported 54,995 new Covid-19 cases on Tuesday, up 6,278 from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health.

The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, were all domestically transmitted.

The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 5,199 new cases on Tuesday, followed by the central Nghe An province with 2,925 and the northern Phu Tho province with 2,827.

The infections brought the country's total tally to 9,922,040, with 42,681 deaths.

Nationwide, as many as 8,147,290 Covid-19 patients, or 82 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.

More than 207 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 189.8 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 Tuesday, it has registered over 9.9 million locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. - Xinhua