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Viet Nam records 2,983 new cases of COVID-19

VGP - The Ministry of Health reported 2,983 new cases of COVID-19 on Tuesday, raising the national caseload to 11,370,462.

Posts Thuy Dung

August 16, 2022 6:42 PM GMT+7
Viet Nam reports 2,983 new COVID-19 cases, highest in 96 days - Ảnh 1.

The number of daily new COVID-19 cases from March 1-August 16, 2022

The same day, additional 5,214 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,035,040.

The ministry also announced further two fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,100 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.

The Southeast Asian nation has administered 251,680,004 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of  223,705 doses from Monday./.