Vietnam reports 18,474 new COVID-19 cases
Apr 17, 2022
Hanoi (Vietnam), April 17: Vietnam recorded 18,474 new COVID-19 cases on Saturday, down by 1,602 from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, which are all domestically transmitted, are reported in 62 cities and provinces.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 1,361 new cases reported on Saturday, followed by the northern provinces of Phu Tho with 1,070 and Bac Giang with 874.
Also on Saturday, local health authorities of northern Vietnam's Quang Ninh province reported 4,880 previously detected COVID-19 cases.
The newly recorded infections brought the total tally to 10,417,887 with 42,934 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 8,931,374 COVID-19 patients, or nearly 86 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
More than 209.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the Southeast Asian country, including nearly 192.1 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 Saturday, it has registered more than 10.4 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry.
Source: Xinhua
