COVID-19: Additional 141,151 cases confirmed on March 20

COVID-19 testing in Quang Tri province (Photo: VNA)

Hanoi (VNA) - There were 141,151 new COVID-19 infections, including twoimported cases, recorded across Vietnam on March 20, according to the Ministryof Health.

The capital city of Hanoi continued registering the highest daily number ofinfections with 19,065, followed by Nghe An with 9,333 cases, and Phu Tho with 5,747cases.

Besides, northern Vinh Phuc province registeredadditional 25,056 cases after verifying information.

Vietnam’s total caseload now reaches 7,958,048.

A total of 63 COVID-related deaths were also recorded, taking the total numberof fatalities to 41,880, accounting for 0.5 percent of the total infections.

There were a further 111,635 recoveries, bringing the total number of peoplegiven the all-clear to 4,103,028.

As many as 201.660,445 million vaccine doses have been administered nationwidesince the start of the pandemic./.

VNA