The ministry also said there were 69,654 new recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 10,578,390.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,138 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 259,308,004 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 131,532 doses from Friday./.