Over 8,000 fresh COVID-19 cases added to national tally
VOV.VN - More than 8,000 new COVID-19 infections were confirmed by the Ministry of Health on April 27, including 6,688 detected within the local community.
Hanoi continued to report the highest number of cases with 921, trailed by Phu Tho with 544 and Nghe An with 351.
The national tally therefore stands at 10,631,516 cases since the start of the pandemic.
A total 46,907 COVID-19 patients recovered from the disease on April 27, thereby bringing the number of recoveries up to 9,163,132.
Moreover, an additional five deaths were recorded over the past 24 hours, to push up the total number of fatalities to 43,034, equal to 0.4% of the overall caseload.
By April 26, the country had injected a total of 213,317,994 COVID-19 vaccines, including more than 1 million first shots for children from five to 11 years old.
In another move, Minister of Health Nguyen Thanh Long has urged localities and organisations to ramp up the speed of the inoculation process for the third dose of COVID-19 vaccines to all adults.
At present, the nation has given more than 212 million vaccine doses, he said, adding that the inoculation of booster shots has been slow and action must be taken to hasten the process.
As of the end of April 26, 17.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines were given to more than 17.3 million children between 12 and 17 years old.