The ministry also said there were 1,227 new recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 10,588,788.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,147 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 259,983,364 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 72,254 doses from Monday./.