HANOI, March 7 (Xinhua) -- Daily COVID-19 tally in Vietnam rose to a new record of 147,358 cases on Monday, up 5,222 cases from Sunday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 147,335 domestically transmitted and 23 imported cases.
Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 32,317 cases on Monday, also its new daily high, followed by central Nghe An province with 10,153 cases, and northern Bac Ninh province with 7,873 cases.
The infections brought the total tally to 4,582,058 with 40,891 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,718,440 COVID-19 patients, or 59 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
Over 197.9 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 180.9 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 Monday, it has registered nearly 4.6 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. ■