The Ministry of Health confirmed over 7,600 domestic COVID-19 cases in Vietnam on Wednesday, along with more than 3,500 and 250 deaths.
Forty-four provinces and cities reported 7,618 locally-infected patients, down by 759 infections from Tuesday, while five separate cases were imported from abroad, the health ministry said.
A total of 1,865 transmissions were found in the community whereas the remainder were logged in isolated areas or centralized quarantine facilities.
Ho Chi Minh City detected 3,300 of the latest local infections, down by 871 patients from yesterday, Binh Duong Province 2,143, Long An Province 427, Dong Nai Province 389, Tay Ninh Province 194, Binh Thuan Province 161, Dong Thap Province 156, Can Tho City 150, Khanh Hoa Province 150, and Da Nang 93.
Since the fourth COVID-19 wave began in Vietnam on April 27, the country has recorded 173,914 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities.
Ho Chi Minh City stays on top with 106,030 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 21,556, Long An Province with 7,450, Bac Ninh Province with 5,737, Dong Nai Province with 5,684, Dong Thap Province with 3,561, Khanh Hoa Province with 2,633, and Tien Giang Province 2,299.
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.
The health ministry announced 3,501 recoveries on Wednesday, bringing the total to 54,332 recovered patients.
The death toll has climbed to 2,327 after the ministry recorded 256 fatalities the same day, including 217 registered in Ho Chi Minh City on Tuesday.
The Southeast Asian country has overall logged 175,484 domestic and 2,329 imported cases since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit it on January 23, 2020.
Health workers gave a record 405,884 vaccine doses today.
Almost 7.3 million COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered in Vietnam since the country rolled out vaccination on March 8, with above 744,000 people having been fully vaccinated.
The Vietnamese government expects to obtain 175 million shots of various vaccines, including 51 million Pfizer-BioNTech jabs, by early 2022.
It set a target of immunizing two-thirds of a population of nearly 98 million people against COVID-19 by the first quarter of next year.
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