The ministry also said there were 9,077 new recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 9,897,545.
It also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,093 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 244,757,059 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 933,258 doses from Thursday./.