Vietnam's local Covid tally crosses 29,000 By Le Nga July 13, 2021 | 06:48 am GMT+7 The downtown area of Ho Chi Minh City on July 9, when the city began 15 days of stringent social distancing measures to curb Covid-19. Photo by VnExpress/Huu Khoa. Vietnam confirmed 465 new community transmissions Tuesday morning, sending the ongoing wave's caseload to 29,103 and the tally of HCMC to over 15,000. Of the new cases, Ho Chi Minh City accounted for 365, including 336 cases in areas under lockdown and quarantine zones. 29 other cases have unclear sources of transmissions. The remaining cases were detected in six other localities. Long An Province that borders HCMC got 52 cases, with 22 having contact with Covid-19 patients, 13 returning from HCMC, and 17 being contact traced.