HANOI, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam reported 15,895 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Saturday, including 15,883 locally transmitted and 12 imported.
According to the Ministry of Health, most of the community cases were recorded in southern localities, including 1,341 in Ca Mau province, 1,019 in Ho Chi Minh City, and 941 in Tay Ninh province. The Vietnamese capital Hanoi logged 1,244 COVID-19 cases on Saturday.
The new infections brought the total tally to 1,524,368 with 29,351 deaths, said the ministry. Nationwide, a total of 1,097,163 COVID-19 patients have so far recovered, up 1,645 from Friday.
Some 137.6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, including 60.8 million second shots, have been administered, according to the ministry.
Vietnam has gone through four coronavirus infection waves, with increasing scale and infectivity. As of Saturday, the Southeast Asian country has registered over 1.5 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in late April, according to the ministry. Enditem
