Daily COVID-19 caseload hits four-month rise of nearly 4,000
VOV.VN - Vietnam has recorded 3,878 coronavirus infections across the country during the past 24 hours, a record high figure in the past four months.
The September 7 figure saw an increase of nearly 300 cases compared to the previous day, the Ministry of Health said in its coronavirus update released at 6pm.
The same day also saw nearly 15,000 more patients recover and two more die of the virus.
Vietnam has so far documented as many as 11,428,632 million COVID-19 cases, ranking 12th out of 227 countries and territories worldwide.
Of the total, 10,252,898 million patients have recovered and 43,125 people have died of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and underlying illnesses.
More than 137,000 shots of COVID-19 vaccines were given nationwide, bringing the total number of vaccine doses administered to nearly 257.7 million.
Currently, localities are speeding up vaccinations to nip in the bud a possible new COVID-19 outbreak due to the emergence of new subvariants of the virus.