Vietnam reports 7,417 new Covid-19 cases and confirms all are domestic cases on Monday (April 25)

A student gets temperature check before receiving Covid-19 vaccination in Hung Yen province. - Vietnam News/ANN

HANOI, April 25 (Xinhua): Vietnam reported 7,417 new Covid-19 cases on Monday, down 1,395 from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health.

The new infections, recorded in 60 provinces and cities, were all domestically transmitted.

The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 941 cases on Monday, followed by the northern provinces of Phu Tho with 493 and Quang Ninh with 411.

Also on Monday, local health authorities of northern Vietnam's Bac Giang province reported 853 previously detected Covid-19 cases.

The infections brought the total tally to 10,571,772 with 43,021 deaths.

Nationwide, 9,092,760 Covid-19 patients, or 86 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.

More than 212.6 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including roughly 194.6 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 Monday, it has registered nearly 10.6 million locally transmitted Covid-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. - Xinhua