The same day, there were additional 6,179 recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 9,715,163.
The ministry also announced one more fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,088 or 0.4 percent of the national patient tally.
The Southeast Asian nation has administered 233,534,502 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 66,330 from Sunday./.