COVID-19: Record number of new cases reported on Thursday
(VOVWORLD) - The number of COVID-19 cases continued to rise in the past 24 hours as of 4pm Thursday to a record 26,032, including 9 imported cases, up over 2,000 cases from the previous day, according to the Ministry of Health.
Hanoi continued to record the highest number of infections with 2,887 cases, followed by Nghe An with 1,749 and Hai Phong with 1,366.
The national tally reached 2,430,683, including 192 infections of Omicron.
A total 9,992 patients fully recovered, taking the total number of recoveries to 2,206,594.
By February 9, the country had injected over 184.12 million doses of vaccines to date, with over 74.48 million people now fully inoculated, while more than 30.48 million booster shots and third shots of Abdala vaccine had been administered.