Vietnam has recorded the first cases of the highly contagious Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 due to transmission to the community, state media report.
The three cases were reported in Ho Chi Minh City over the weekend and were confirmed to be cases of Omicron infection due to transmission to the community on Tuesday, according to the Tiền Phong newspaper, which cited health officials.
On Tuesday, the Vietnamese Ministry of Health announced that 16,838 SARS-CoV-2 infections had been confirmed in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 2,062,128.
The deaths of another 184 patients due to complications of COVID-19 have increased the official death toll from the new coronavirus pandemic in the Asian state to 35,972.
By yesterday, the country of about 98 million people had received 170.1 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, with 72.7 million people fully immunized and some 18.8 million now receiving a third, booster dose. , always according to official numbers
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