HANOI, March 1 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam logged 98,762 new COVID-19 infections on Tuesday, its new daily record, up 4,377 cases from Monday, according to its Ministry of Health.

The new infections, logged in 63 localities nationwide, included 98,743 domestically transmitted and 19 imported.

Vietnamese capital Hanoi remained the epidemic hotspot with 13,323 cases on Tuesday, also its highest-ever daily number, followed by northern Quang Ninh province with 4,011 cases, and northern Bac Ninh province with 3,933 cases.

On the same day, health authorities also documented 15,382 COVID-19 cases detected earlier in northern Ha Giang province.

The infections brought the total tally to 3,557,629 with 40,338 deaths. Nationwide, as many as 2,479,883 COVID-19 patients, or 70 percent of the infections, have so far recovered.

Around 195 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered in the country, including 178.2 million shots on people aged 18 and above, said the ministry.

Vietnam has by far gone through four coronavirus waves of increasing scale, complication, and infectivity. As of Tuesday, it has registered over 3.55 million locally transmitted COVID-19 cases since the start of the current wave in April 2021, said the health ministry. Enditem

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