The Ministry of Health confirmed 8,800 new coronavirus infections in Vietnam on Wednesday, alongside over 3,700 recoveries.

Forty-two provinces and cities recorded 8,788 local cases whereas another 12 infections were imported from abroad, the health ministry said.

The ministry had reported 9,595 domestically-infected patients on Tuesday.

More than 5,900 of the latest local cases were found in the community while the remainder were detected in isolated areas or centralized quarantine facilities.

Ho Chi Minh City logged 3,731 of the new domestic infections, up by 172 cases from yesterday, Binh Duong Province 2,513, Dong Nai Province 443, Long An Province 428, Tien Giang Province 282, Da Nang 278, Kien Giang Province 169, An Giang Province 105, Tay Ninh Province 104, Can Tho City 91, and Hanoi 46.

Since the fourth COVID-19 wave began in Vietnam on April 27, the country has found 298,064 community transmissions in 62 out of its 63 provinces and cities.  

Ho Chi Minh City is on top with 159,917 patients, followed by Binh Duong Province with 52,346, Long An Province with 16,007, Dong Nai Province with 14,945, Bac Giang Province with 5,743, Dong Thap Province with 5,369, Tien Giang Province with 5,141, Khanh Hoa Province with 4,733, Tay Ninh Province with 3,717, Can Tho City with 3,012, Ba Ria-Vung Tau Province with 2,666, Hanoi with 2,591, and Da Nang with 2,527.

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 3,751 recoveries on Wednesday, taking the total to 115,059 recovered patients.

The death toll has spiked to 6,770 after the health ministry reported 298 fatalities the same day, including 255 registered in Ho Chi Minh City and 20 in Binh Duong Province.

The Southeast Asian country has detected an accumulation of 302,101 cases since the COVID-19 pandemic first hit it on January 23, 2020.

Health workers gave 395,979 COVID-19 vaccine doses on Tuesday.

About 15.5 million vaccine shots have been administered in Vietnam since the country rolled out vaccination on March 8, with nearly 1.5 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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