COVID-19: New cases top 118,700 on Thursday
(VOVWORLD) - A total 118,790 cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the past 24 hours as of 4pm Thursday, including 10 imported cases, according to the Ministry of Health.
Hanoi continued to report the highest number of infections on the day with 18,861 cases, followed by Nghe An with 6,152 and Bac Ninh with 5,748.
Hai Duong province supplemented 29,360 cases and Thai Binh added 28,000 after verifying information.
The national tally reached 3,885,631.
A total 33,740 patients fully recovered, taking the total number of recoveries to 2,550,525.
By March 2, Vietnam had injected over 195.67 million doses of vaccines, with over 70.78 million people over 18 and 8.16 million children from 12-17 having received two shots, while more than 40.6 million booster shots and third shots had been administered.