HANOI, March 2 (Xinhua) -- The daily COVID-19 tally in Vietnam surged to 110,301 on Wednesday, up 11,539 from Tuesday, according to the Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 110,280 domestically transmitted and 21 imported.
The Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 15,114 cases on Wednesday, also its new daily record, followed by the northern Bac Ninh province with 4,698 cases, and the central Nghe An province with 4,329 cases.
On the same day, health authorities also documented 41,551 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in the northern provinces of Nam Dinh, Bac Giang, and Thai Nguyen.
The infections brought the total tally to 3,709,481 with 40,452 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,516,785 COVID-19 patients, or 68 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Over 195.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 178.5 million shots on people aged 18 and above, said the ministry.
Vietnam has by far gone through four coronavirus waves of increasing scale, complication, and infectivity. As of Wednesday, it has registered over 3.7 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the ministry. ■
