From January 1 up to now, 120,509 recovered patients have gone home and 9,974 deaths of Covid-19 have been confirmed.
As for the vaccination process, the city run out of 6,268,327 doses by September 2.
From August 15 to September 1, HCMC gave 1,474,683 gift bags to support the poor and self-employed workers during social distancing days. With 14,000 tons of rice from the national reserve dedicated for the Covid-19 hit people, HCMC received and planned to deliver 6,000 tons of rice to the eligible cases as soon as possible.
Amid the Covid-19 surges, the city health sector has increased the capacity of beds for hospitalized cases related to Covid-19.
According to Doctor Nguyen Van Vinh Chau, Vice Director of the Municipal Department of Health, Vietnam has not detected new coronavirus variant apart from the Delta variant.