New COVID-19 cases increase, no deaths on Friday
(VOVWORLD) -The Ministry of Health said on Friday that new COVID-19 cases increased slightly to 956 in the past 24 hours. During the day, 5,619 patients recovered, 6 times higher than new cases. No deaths were reported.
Vietnam has to date detected the occurrence of Omicron sub-variants BA.4 (3 cases) and BA.5 (4 cases) in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Can Tho.
The Ministry of Health has coordinated with the Institutes of Hygiene and Epidemiology to monitor the circulation of sub-variants. According to the monitoring system's report, BA.2 is still the dominant variant in the community.