COVID-19 epidemic today: Cases decrease sharply

Regarding the COVID-19 epidemic situation today , the Ministry of Health said that from 4:00 p.m. on September 29 to 4:00 p.m. on September 30, the whole country recorded 10 cases, a decrease compared to the previous day.

Dịch COVID-19 hôm nay: Ca mắc giảm mạnh - Ảnh 1.

COVID-19 pandemic chart

Since the beginning of the pandemic, Vietnam has had 11,623,698 infections, ranking 13th out of 231 countries and territories. The total number of cured cases is 10,640,809. The number of deaths due to COVID-19 in Vietnam to date is 43,206, accounting for 0.4% of the total number of infections.

During the day, 22 more patients were announced to be cured. The number of patients using oxygen is 3 cases.

The Ministry of Health said that since the beginning of the year, the average number of cases per month has decreased 12 times compared to 2021 (about 144,000 cases/month) and 68 times compared to 2022 (about 816,000 cases/month). The mortality rate due to COVID-19 decreased from 1.86% in 2021 to 0.1% in 2022 and is currently 0.02% in 2023 (as of the end of August 2023), equivalent to or lower than the mortality rate of some common group B infectious diseases recorded in Vietnam.

To date, our country has administered more than 266.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine. Vietnam is one of the countries with the highest COVID-19 vaccination coverage rate in the world .

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