The southern province of Binh Duong and Ho Chi Minh City led the way in term of infection numbers with 5,414, and 4,957, respectively.

The four localities recording hundreds of local cases included Long An (533), Dong Nai (377), Tay Ninh (234), and Tien Giang (155).

Hanoi capital also saw a growing number of infections with 133 recorded on August 29, up 72 from one day earlier.

The nation has gone several days in a row recording more than 12,000 domestic cases in a single day, thereby bringing the overall number of cases in the fourth COVID-19 wave to over 431,000. Among them more than 217,000 have been recovered from the virus.

As many as 344 deaths were confirmed on August 29, most of them in HCM City. The COVID-19 fatality count is now at 10,749, or 2.1% of the total infections and 0.4% higher than the COVID-19 mortality rate in the world.

The nation has so far registered a total of 435,265 positive cases since the pandemic hit the nation early last year, while the number of recoveries rose to 219,802 after 8,813 patients were released from hospital after making a full recovery from the disease.

More than 19.4 million people have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, with over 2.4 million people being fully vaccinated with both doses.

Source: VOV

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