Vietnam sees lowest daily COVID-19 infections in a year

The
new infections, all locally transmitted, represented a decrease of 166
compared to the figure on the previous day.

They brought the country’s total caseload to 10,737,640 since the start of
the pandemic.

The
capital city of Hanoi remained the only locality with over 100 new cases
reported, at 140.

A
total of 4,255 patients were given the all-clear, bringing the total number of
recoveries to 9,601,630.

There
are 44 patients needing oxygen support, while no deaths were recorded in
the past 24 hours.

The
total number of fatalities still stands at 43,083, accounting for 0.4 percent
of total infections.

More
than 225.6 million vaccine doses have been administered in Vietnam so
far, including more than 202 million doses for adults, over 17.5
million for those aged 12 to 17 and 5.9 million doses for children
aged 5 to under 12 years old./.