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HANOI, April 3 (Xinhua) — Vietnam recorded 50,730 new COVID-19 cases on Sunday, a decline of 14,889 cases from Saturday, said the Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, were all domestically transmitted.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 6,304 new cases on Sunday, followed by the northern Yen Bai province with 2,604 and the central Nghe An province with 2,599.
On the same day, health authorities also documented 51,316 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in the two northern localities of Thai Binh and Bac Giang.
The newly reported infections brought the total tally to 9,818,328, with 42,600 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 7,787,962 COVID-19 patients, or 79 percent of the total infections, have so far recovered.
Over 206.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the Southeast Asian country, including 189.3 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 Sunday, it has registered more than 9.8 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry.
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