HANOI, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam registered another record high of daily COVID-19 infections on Sunday, with 86,990 cases, up 9,008 cases from Saturday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 61 localities nationwide, included 86,966 domestically transmitted and 24 imported.
Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 11,517 cases on Sunday, also its new daily record, followed by the northern Quang Ninh province with 5,997 cases, and the northern Lang Son province with 4,960 cases.
On the same day, health authorities also recorded 14,838 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in the northern Phu Tho province.
The infections brought the total tally to 3,321,005, with 40,144 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,411,912 COVID-19 patients, or 73 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
More than 193.4 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the Southeast Asian country, including 176.6 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 Sunday, it has registered over 3.3 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. ■