Most of the domestic infections are identified as F1 contacts with other confirmed coronavirus patients or linked to previous outbreaks.

Among the two imported cases detected in Ninh Binh and Dong Nai provinces, one entered Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City from France ,and was quarantined immediately upon arrival in Dong Nai province.

Notably, five out of 33 pandemic-hit cities and provinces, namely Yen Bai, Quang Ngai, Dong Nai, Nghe An, Quang Ninh, have gone 14 days without recording new cases of local transmission.

The latest infections brought the total locally-transmitted cases to 3,636, of which 2,066 have been found since the fourth coronavirus wave hit the country in late April.

The number of imported cases was 1,483, while the total recoveries reach 2,721.

One day earlier, the country posted a total of 143 cases of local transmission across 11 Vietnamese localities, with Bac Giang and Bac Ninh recording the highest number of active cases.

According to the Expanded National Immunization Programme, as many as 1,027,659 frontline healthcare workers along with members of community-based anti-COVID-19 groups have been injected with the COVID-19 vaccine, with a total of 987 being inoculated in Tay Ninh province on May 22.

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National Cancer Hospital put under lockdown, more infections detected

All three facilities of Vietnam's National Cancer Hospital, also known as K Hospital, in Hanoi were put under lockdown from 5:30am on May 7, after 10 COVID-19 infections were recorded in the hospital’s Tan Trieu facility.