The same day, there were 4,531 patients declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 9,842,176.
The ministry also announced further one fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,092 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 241,480,787 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 457,727 doses from Thursday./.