A student at Cẩm Xuyên High School in Hà Tĩnh Province gets vaccinated against COVID-19 on Monday. — VNA/VNS Photo

HÀ NỘI — COVID-19 infections in Hà Nội reached a record daily high of 429 new cases on Monday, as part of 13,770 new cases across the country.  

This is the highest number of cases since the capital city recorded its first COVID-19 case in early last March 2020. 

Total cases since the start of the pandemic now stand at 1,224,110. 

Monday's figures include 12 imported cases; 7,601 infections were found in the community.

HCM City topped the list with 1,554, followed by Cần Thơ (913), Tây Ninh (719). 

Other cases were found in Bình Dương (697), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (648), Đồng Tháp (608), Sóc Trăng (588), Bình Thuận (576), Trà Vinh (560), Vĩnh Long (559), Đồng Nai (548), Bạc Liêu (544), Bình Phước (516), Kiên Giang (443), Cà Mau (396), An Giang (375), Bến Tre (335), Khánh Hòa (308), Hậu Giang (294), Bình Định (195), Lâm Đồng (174), Hà Giang (163), Bắc Ninh (145), Nghệ An (143), Long An (122), Thừa Thiên Huế (119), Đắk Nông (88), Thanh Hóa (87), Quảng Nam (84), Hải Dương (69), Đà Nẵng (65), Ninh Thuận (56), Nam Định (55), Phú Thọ (54), Vĩnh Phúc (50), Tiền Giang (50), Quảng Ngãi (47), Hòa Bình (46), Thái Nguyên (39), Hải Phòng (36), Phú Yên (35), Tuyên Quang (30), Gia Lai (26), Hưng Yên (22), Lạng Sơn (20), Quảng Bình (18), Quảng Trị (18), Yên Bái (17), Cao Bằng (13), Hà Nam (11), Bắc Giang (11), Quảng Ninh (9), Ninh Bình (9), Kon Tum (7), Thái Bình (7), Điện Biên (4), Lào Cai (3) and Sơn La (1).

The Ministry of Health also announced on Monday a further 173 fatalities, bringing the total death toll from COVID-19 in Việt Nam to 25,055. 

However, a further 16,088 patients have now recovered from the virus, taking total national recoveries to 974,724.

Việt Nam has so far administered more than 120 million doses of vaccine, of which 49.6 million people have been inoculated twice. — VNS