The same day, there were additional 6,395 patients declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,062,585.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,104 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 254,094,637 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 696,048 doses from Friday./.