Lowest number of daily infections in two months

A sixth grader at Lê Ngọc Hân Secondary School in Hà Nội’s Hai Bà Trưng District gets vaccinated against COVID-19 on Sunday. — VNA/VnExpress News Photo Minh Quyết

HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Health announced 14,660 new cases of COVID-19 on Sunday, the lowest number in two months.

In Hà Nội, just 1,253 new infections were detected, but the capital is still the highest nationwide.

Other cases were found in Yên Bái (801), Quảng Ninh (778), Phú Thọ (749) and the central province of Nghệ An (746), Tuyên Quang (582), Bắc Giang (534), Thái Nguyên (509), Đắk Lắk (482), Thái Bình (477), Hải Dương (448), Vĩnh Phúc (441), Lào Cai (440), Hồ Chí Minh (427), Bắc Kạn (398), Quảng Bình (398), Gia Lai (368), Hưng Yên (263), Lạng Sơn (258), Bắc Ninh (233), Cao Bằng (224), Sơn La (220), Hà Tĩnh (213), Quảng Nam (208), Ninh Bình (187), Nam Định (186), Bình Định (183), Hà Giang (181), Lâm Đồng (176), Quảng Trị (143), Bến Tre (142), Vĩnh Long (135), Điện Biên (135), Đà Nẵng (131), Đắk Nông (126), Bình Dương (124), Lai Châu (122), Hà Nam (120), Hòa Bình (115), Tây Ninh (114), Thanh Hóa (107), Phú Yên (103), Quảng Ngãi (99), Cà Mau (83), Bình Phước (69), Thừa Thiên Huế (68), Bà Rịa – Vũng Tàu (62), An Giang (42), Sóc Trăng (39), Long An (38), Bình Thuận (37), Kiên Giang (35), Khánh Hòa (28), Kon Tum (22), Cần Thơ (16), Đồng Nai (14), Bạc Liêu (11), Trà Vinh (7), Đồng Tháp (7), Hậu Giang (3).

The national tally reached 10,432,547.

A total 5,472 patients were given the all clear on Sunday, bringing the number of recoveries to 8,936,846.

There are currently 1,070 patients in a critical condition, and an additional ten deaths were recorded in the past 24 hours, taking the total number of fatalities to 42,944, equal to 0.4 per cent of the total caseload.

By Sunday, the country had administered 209,483,478 doses of COVID-19 vaccines. Of those,  more than 192 million doses were for adults, more than 17 million for children aged 12-17, and more than 12,000 for children aged 5 to under 12 years old. — VnExpress News