(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Health said that from 4pm on Sunday to 4pm on Monday, 15,936 new infections were recorded in Vietnam. 20 cases were imported and the rest were recorded domestically in 60 provinces and cities.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam has recorded 1.76 million cases of COVID-19, ranking 31 out of 224 countries and territories regarding the number of cases, and 138 regarding the ratio of infections per million people.

(VOVWORLD) - As of Monday, the world recorded more than 290.6 million cases of COVID-19 and nearly 5.5 million deaths, according to statistics site worldometers.info. The number of recovered patients was nearly 255 million.

(VOVWORLD) - Vietnam logged additional 16,948 COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours as of 4 pm Sunday.

(VOVWORLD) - All Vietnamese people above 18 years old have been vaccinated one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, 90% of them have been fully vaccinated.

(VOVWORLD) - 14,835 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in Vietnam on Saturday, according to the Ministry of Health.

(VOVWORLD) - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) is optimistic that the COVID-19 pandemic may end in 2022 if global vaccination rates increase and countries work together to control the spread of the disease.

(VOVWORLD) - The risk of hospitalisation with the Omicron variant of coronavirus is about one-third that of the Delta variant, according to British analysis of more than a million cases of both types in recent weeks.

(VOVWORLD) - The Omicron coronavirus variant dampened New Year festivities around much of the world, with Paris cancelling its fireworks show, London relegating its to television, and New York City scaling down its famous ball drop celebration in Times Square.

(VOVWORLD) - On Friday, the last day of 2021, Vietnam recorded 16,515 new COVID-19 infections. 39 were imported and 16,476 were recorded domestically in 60 provinces and cities, 504 cases less than the previous day.