The same day, there were 5,298 new recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 10,040,338.
The ministry also announced three more fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,103 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The Southeast Asian nation has administered 252,097,399 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 417,395 doses from Tuesday./.