All the latest patients are domestic infections recorded in 56 cities and provinces, in which Ha Noi still reported the most with 684 cases, followed by northern provinces of Phu Tho and Vinh Phuc with 439 and 273 cases, respectively.
The ministry also said there were 5,084 new recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 9,314,420.
It also announced further two fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,049 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 215,159,324 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 137,273 doses from Wednesday./.