HANOI, April 13 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam recorded 24,623 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, up by 1,819 cases from Tuesday, said its Ministry of Health.
The new infections are all domestically transmitted.
Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 1,727 new cases reported on Wednesday, followed by the northern Phu Tho province with 1,627 and the central Nghe An province with 989.
The new infections brought the total tally to 10,297,587 with 42,878 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 8,770,994 COVID-19 patients, or 85 percent of the total infections, have so far recovered.
More than 208.8 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the Southeast Asian country, including nearly 191.6 million shots on people aged 18 and above, said the ministry.
Vietnam has by far gone through four coronavirus waves of increasing scale, complication, and infectivity. As of Wednesday, it has registered approximately 10.3 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. ■