Vietnam’s Ministry of Health recorded 382 local COVID-19 cases on Monday, of which 218 were registered in Ho Chi Minh City.

The southern province of Binh Duong detected 40 cases, while the northern province of Bac Giang logged 26 cases.

The remaining infections were documented in 16 other provinces and cities.

A total of 340 cases were in quarantine facilities or locked-down areas.

Aside from the community-based infections, the health ministry also recorded nine imported COVID-19 cases on Monday.

Vietnam has registered 12,693 local infections in 48 out of its 63 provinces and cities since the fourth transmission wave broke out on April 27.

Bac Giang is leading the table with 5,663 patients, followed by Ho Chi Minh City with 3,436 and Bac Ninh Province with 1,589.

By comparison, Vietnam confirmed 106 community cases in the first wave from January 23 to April 16, 2020, 554 in the second from July 25 to December 1, 2020, and 910 in the third from January 28 to March 25, 2021. 

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Southeast Asian country has reported 16,041 coronavirus cases, including 14,263 local and 1,778 imported cases.

A total of 6,519 patients have recovered from the respiratory disease, including 200 announced on Monday.

Seventy-six coronavirus-related deaths have been recorded, most of which were due to serious underlying health conditions.

Thirteen provinces and cities in the country have not logged any local infections over the past 14 days.

Vietnam has administered more than 3,386,600 COVID-19 vaccine shots since it rolled out inoculation on March 8.

Over 157,000 people have completed the two-dose regimen.

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