Vietnam confirms 11,011 new local Covid-19 cases on Tuesday

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Passengers are seen at Tan Son Nhat International Airport in Ho Chi Minh City, January 27, 2021. Photo by VnExpress/Quynh Tran

 

The Health Ministry announced 11,011 new Covid-19 patients Tuesday in fifty-five cities and provinces.

 

Hanoi led in the number of new cases at 2,705, followed by Da Nang City with 783 cases and Hai Phong with 496 cases.

 

In the past 24 hours, 109 Covid-19 patients have died, including twenty in Hanoi.

 

Vietnam has recorded 185 cases with the Omicron variant to date, with ninety-two of them in HCMC.

 

Since the pandemic started last year, the death toll in Vietnam has climbed to 37,780, or 1.67 percent of all infections.

In the latest wave that hit the country in late April, more than 2.26 million cases have been confirmed and 2.06 million of them have recovered.

 

So far, 76.9 percent of the population has been vaccinated with two doses.

 

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