Ho Chi Minh City registered 2,215 infections on Friday
Vietnam’s Ministry of Health recorded 4,806 new coronavirus cases in the country on Friday, while logging 994 recoveries and 114 fatalities.
The latest cases, including 4,795 local and 11 imported infections, were documented in 43 provinces and cities, the health ministry said, noting 2,451 patients were detected in the community.
Ho Chi Minh City registered 2,215 of the new cases, Binh Duong Province 828, Dong Nai Province 612, An Giang Province 182, Tay Ninh Province 92, Kien Giang Province 89, Tien Giang 74, Khanh Hoa Province 55, Can Tho City 48, and Hanoi five.
Vietnam had confirmed 4,147 locally-acquired infections on Thursday.
The country has found 827,033 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth – and worst – virus wave emerged on April 27.
Ho Chi Minh City has been hit the hardest with 407,399 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 220,480, Dong Nai Province with 53,752, Long An Province with 33,092, Tien Giang Province with 14,433, Dong Thap Province with 8,539, Khanh Hoa Province with 8,152, Da Nang with 4,925, Hanoi with 4,267, and Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province with 4,292.
Vietnam documented only 1,570 locally-transmitted infections in total in the previous three waves.
The health ministry reported 994 recoveries on Friday, bringing the total to 759,482.
The toll has jumped to 20,337 deaths after the ministry logged 114 fatalities on the same day, including 78 in Ho Chi Minh City and 17 in Binh Duong Province.
Vietnam has registered 831,643 patients since the COVID-19 pandemic first struck it early last year.
Health workers have administered over 50 million vaccine doses, including 1,498,557 shots on Thursday, since inoculation was rolled out on March 8.
Above 13.6 million people have been fully vaccinated.
Health authorities aim to immunize at least two-thirds of a population of nearly 98 million people against COVID-19 by the first quarter of next year.
