Of the new cases, 46 were recorded in HCMC, 20 in Bac Giang, 7 in Bac Ninh, and 3 in Nghe An.

People travel through a Covid-19 checkpoint in Ho Chi Minh City, June 2021.

The new patients have propelled the HCMC's case count to rank second in the ongoing wave, surpassing Bac Ninh. Fourty one new cases in the southern metro are detected in quarantined areas, while the rest are being contact traced.

All the cases in the northern province of Bac Giang are associated with existing outbreaks at local industrial parks. Seven patients in its neighbor Bac Ninh are also linked to local outbreaks.

Since the new wave started on April 27, community infections have been recorded in 41 cities and provinces, with Bac Giang and HCMC accounting for the highest cases, at 5,330 and 1,527 respectively, followed closely by Bac Ninh with 1,513.

Twenty two localities have not detected any new cases in 14 days. Eight others have not had any new patients in 30 days.

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Source: VnExpress