The same day, there were additional 365 patients declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,599,925.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,159 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 260,802,292 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 134,795 doses from Tuesday./.