Nearly 15,600 new COVID-19 cases recorded on December 25

A resident in Tam Hiep commune of Hanoi’s Thanh Tri district has nasal swab taken for testing (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) – Vietnam logged 15,586 new
COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours till 4pm on December 25, including 27
, reported the .

Hanoi still recorded the highest number of
infections with 1,879 cases.

The country has so far confirmed 1,636,455
infections.

Since the fourth pandemic wave hit the country on
April 27, as many as 1,630,851 cases have been discovered, 1,226,867 of this
figure have recovered.

The same day, 235 people were confirmed dead from
the disease.

The number of fatalities has so far reached 31,007,
or 1.9 percent of the total infections./.