The Ministry of Health recorded 8,752 domestic COVID-19 infections in Vietnam on Wednesday, together with more than 4,800 recoveries and 340 fatalities.

The new infections were reported in 33 provinces and cities while 14 separate cases were imported from abroad, the health ministry said.

The ministry had confirmed 8,385 locally-infected patients in 39 provinces and cities on Tuesday.

A total of 1,786 cases out of the 8,752 patients were found in the community whereas the remainder were detected in isolated areas or centralized quarantine facilities.

Ho Chi Minh City registered 3,416 of the latest local infections, down by 540 cases from yesterday, Binh Duong Province 1,897, Dong Nai Province 979, Long An Province 963, Tay Ninh Province 263, Dong Thap Province 191, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province 181, Tien Giang Province 177, Can Tho City 103, Khanh Hoa Province 102, Da Nang 56, and Hanoi 40.

Since the fourth COVID-19 wave began in Vietnam on April 27, the country has documented 232,950 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities.

Ho Chi Minh City is on top with 133,167 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 33,748, Long An Province with 12,255, Dong Nai Province with 10,168, Dong Thap Province with 4,337, Khanh Hoa Province with 3,501, Tien Giang Province 3,414, Tay Ninh Province 3,077, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province with 2,425, Hanoi with 2,180, and Can Tho City with 2,059.

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 ministry announced 4,806 recoveries on Wednesday, taking the total to 85,154 recovered patients.

The death toll has climbed to 4,487 after the health ministry reported 342 fatalities the same day, including 261 registered in Ho Chi Minh City, 24 in Can Tho City, and 22 in Binh Duong Province.

The Southeast Asian country has detected an accumulation of 234,520 domestic and 2,381 imported cases since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit it on January 23, 2020.

Health workers gave a new high of 1,408,453 vaccine doses today.

Over 11.3 million COVID-19 vaccine shots have been administered in Vietnam since the country rolled out vaccination on March 8, with more than one million 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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