Checking a customer's body temperature before entering a supermarket in the northern province of Vĩnh Phúc. — VNA/VNS Photo Hoàng Hùng

HÀ NỘI — Hà Nội continued to see a decreasing number of new daily COVID-19 infections on Friday. However, the capital city still had the most new cases in Việt Nam with 7,734.

The country registered 72,555 new COVID-19 transmissions, with 9,650,663 recorded since the start of the pandemic. Việt Nam ranks 12th out of 227 countries worldwide for the number of cases.

One of the new patients was imported and the rest were domestic. 

51,351 infections were detected in the community.

The other localities that reported new cases were Nghệ An (3,226), Đắk Lắk (3,099), Phú Thọ (3,087), Yên Bái (2,998), Lào Cai (2,804), Bắc Giang (2,705), Quảng Ninh (2,450), Hà Giang (2,294), Vĩnh Phúc (2,202), Quảng Bình (2,030), Thái Bình (1,922), Lạng Sơn (1,890), Bắc Kạn (1,770), Tuyên Quang (1,588), Sơn La (1,569), Bắc Ninh (1,375), Vĩnh Long (1,331), Cao Bằng (1,273), Bình Định (1,226), Hải Dương (1,215), Hà Nam (1,188), Hưng Yên (1,181), Thái Nguyên (1,152), Cà Mau (1,135), Hòa Bình (1,096), Lâm Đồng (1,088), Quảng Trị (1,084), Tây Ninh (1,030), Bình Dương (982), Ninh Bình (951), Lai Châu (937), Bến Tre (919), Điện Biên (854), Hà Tĩnh (737), Đà Nẵng (734), Hồ Chí Minh City (725), Bình Phước (667), Nam Định (616), Quảng Ngãi (568), Thừa Thiên Huế (555), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (524), Đắk Nông (494), Thanh Hóa (482), Trà Vinh (419), Phú Yên (394), Hải Phòng (378), Khánh Hòa (323), Bình Thuận (314), Quảng Nam (263), An Giang (170), Bạc Liêu (156), Kon Tum (143), Kiên Giang (125), Long An (120), Đồng Nai (69), Sóc Trăng (59), Cần Thơ (48), Tiền Giang (27), Hậu Giang (25), Ninh Thuận (23) and Đồng Tháp (12).

Vĩnh Phúc Department of Health registered an additional 13,498 cases, which were not previously logged on the National System of COVID-19 Case Management.

87,463 patients were declared recovered from the virus on Friday, with a total of 7,606,476 people given the all-clear since the pandemic began.

33 fatalities related to COVID-19 were reported, in Phú Thọ (4), Bạc Liêu (3), Bắc Giang (2), Bến Tre (2), Đồng Nai (2), Nghệ An (2), Phú Yên (2), Sóc Trăng (2), An Giang (1), Bà Rịa - Vũng Tàu (1), Bình Định (1), Bình Phước (1), Cà Mau (1), Đà Nẵng (1), Đắk Lắk (1), Gia Lai (1), Hà Giang (1), Lâm Đồng (1), Quảng Bình (1), Thanh Hóa (1), TP. Hồ Chí Minh (1), Vĩnh Long (1).

More than 206.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered nationwide so far. — VNS