Taking test samples for people in Cau village, Tu Lan commune, Viet Yen district, Bac Giang province. (Photo: VNA)
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On Friday, Vietnam recorded 4,899 new infections, of which 10 were imported and 4,889 were locally-transmitted.
The average number of new infections recorded in the past seven days is 4,110 cases per day.
Since the onset of the pandemic, Vietnam’s caseload has reached 910,376, ranking 40 out of 223 countries and territories. In terms of the rate of infections per 1 million people, Vietnam ranked 152 out of 223 countries and territories (on average, there are 9,243 infections for every 1 million people).