HANOI, 9th April, 2022 (WAM) -- Vietnam on Saturday reported 34,140 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, including two imported cases, the Vietnam News Agency (VNA) quoted the Health Ministry as saying.

According to VNA, the new infections brought the country's total caseload to 10,169,929 since the pandemic broke out, ranking 12 out of 227 countries and territories in the world.

As many as 41,857 patients were declared to be free from coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, lifting the total number of recoveries to 8,497,532.

The same day, 26 fatalities were announced, raising the total death toll to 42,794.

The country has to date administered 208,460,812 doses of COVID-19 vaccines.