(VOVWORLD) - The Health Ministry confirmed at noon on Tuesday that Vietnam had logged additional 76 COVID-19 infections in the past six hours to 12pm, including one imported case in Kien Giang province.
Among the domestically-transmitted cases, 55 were recorded in Bac Giang, 10 in Ho Chi Minh City, four in Bac Ninh, five in Lang Son, and one in the Dong Anh facility of the National Hospital for Tropical Diseases. Of them, 74 are in quarantine sites or sealed-off areas.
To date, Vietnam has documented 9,103 infections, including 1,583 imported ones.
Also on Tuesday, Vietnam recorded its 54th coronavirus death, bringing the fatality tally in the nation's latest wave to 19.
The deceased patient was a 51-year-old man from the northern province of Hung Yen, who had cirrhosis and toxic hepatitis.