The Health Ministry said that Hanoi had 1,879 new cases, followed by the southern province of Tay Ninh with 946 and its neighbor HCMC with 885 cases.
The ministry also confirmed 241 Covid-19 deaths, including 42 in HCMC and 39 in Dong Nai, raising the national Covid death toll to 31,007, or 1.9 percent of the total infections.
The fourth wave that hit Vietnam late April has until now seen over 1.62 million Covid cases. Of these more than 1.22 have recovered.
Over 65.3 million people of Vietnams 96 million population have been vaccinated with two doses, and more than 2 million have received the third dose.