Vietnam reports 41,980 new COVID-19 infections

Hanoi (Vietnam), February 20: Vietnam registered 41,980 new COVID-19 infections on Saturday, down 459 cases from Friday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, included 41,968 domestically transmitted and 12 imported.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the locality with the highest number of 4,869 infections on Saturday, followed by northern Bac Ninh province with 3,040 cases and northern Quang Ninh province with 1,990 cases.
On the same day, health authorities also documented 12,850 infections detected earlier in northern Vinh Phuc province.
The infections brought the country's total tally to 2,740,293 with 39,423 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,268,020 COVID-19 patients, or 83 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
More than 190.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 174.2 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 over 2.7 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry.
Source: Xinhua