Hanoi continues to lead and is the only locality with over 100 new cases (145).

The seven-day rolling average of new daily infections in Vietnam is at 764, down from 868 a week ago.

Thursday saw the recovery of 8,835 COVID-19 patients, bringing the total number of recoveries to 9,583,105 so far.

With no deaths from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, Vietnam's number of fatalities stands at 43,083, about 0.4 per cent of total infections.