HANOI, March 23 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 127,883 new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, down 2,852 cases from Tuesday, according to its Ministry of Health.
The new infections, logged in 62 localities nationwide, included 127,878 domestically transmitted and five imported cases.
Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 13,005 cases on Wednesday, followed by northern Phu Tho province with 5,307 cases and central Nghe An province with 4,425 cases.
On the same day, health authorities also documented 12,954 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in northern Tuyen Quang province.
The infections brought the total tally to 8,479,751, with 42,075 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 4,661,270 COVID-19 patients, or 55 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.
More than 203.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 186.1 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 8.47 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. ■