Ho Chi Minh City and its neighboring provinces of Binh Duong and Dong Nai account for most cases, at 783, 528, and 481.
The ministry also confirmed 64 Covid-19 deaths Tuesday, including 27 in HCMC and 14 in Binh Duong, raising the nation's death toll since the start of the pandemic to 21,802, a mortality rate of 2.5 percent.
So far in the fourth wave that emerged six months ago, 891,389 cases have been confirmed, 807,473 have recovered and 21,767 have died.
Until now, 21.8 million of the nation's 96 million have been fully vaccinated with two doses.