The same day, there were additional 805 patients declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries to 10,593,986.
The ministry also announced further two fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,151 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 260,228,227 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 18,113 doses from Monday./.