Daily COVID-19 rate reaches over 98,000 as Hanoi passes 13,000 infections

VOV.VN - The country confirmed a further 98,762 COVID-19 cases on March 1 across 63 cities and provinces nationwide, with Hanoi continuing to lead the tally with 13,323 infections.

Localities recording thousands of COVID-19 cases include uang Ninh (4,011), Bac Ninh (3,933), Nghe An (3,864), Lao Cai (3,398), Hung Yen (3,393), and Son La (3,087).

The Ministry of Health confirmed an additional 86 COVID-19 deaths on the same day, including 20 in Hanoi, thereby raising the national death toll to over 40,338 or 1.1% of total infections.

Following the fourth wave of infections which hit the country in late April, more than 3.55 million cases have now been detected, with over 2.47 million people having made a full recovery from the virus.

The same day saw the Ministry of Health announce the discharge of a further 40,932 COVID-19 patients after fully recovering from their infection, thereby taking the total number of recoveries up to over 2.47 million.

By February 28, the country had injected over 194.97 million doses of vaccines, with more than 178 million people over getting vaccinated.

According to the Ministry of Health, children aged between five and 11 in the country will be administered with the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine with a dosage of 0.2ml, The Ministry issued a decision on March 1 to amend Article 1 of a decision on conditional approval of vaccines for urgent use as part of COVID-19 prevention and control measures.

People above the age of 12 will therefore receive 0.3ml of Pfizer each dose.
The Government recently decided to purchase 21.9 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine for children aged five to 11.

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