AFP
The coronavirus pandemic in Vietnam is now out of control in many parts of the country due to a fourth wave of infections from the Delta variant, Health Minister Nguyen Thanh Long said Monday as the government moved to raise the lowest vaccination rate in Southeast Asia.
Nguyen, a medical doctor and one of the chief strategists of Vietnam’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, told a videoconference in Hanoi that authorities in many places did not prepare well for the pandemic, making the situation worse than anticipated.
On Monday, Vietnam recorded 157,507 confirmed COVID-19 cases, with 3,201 new ones, and 1,306 total deaths since the pandemic began, according to figures from the Health Ministry.
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