The same day, there were 20,718 recoveries, taking the total number of recovered cases to 10,232,281.
The ministry also announced further two fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,122 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The Southeast Asian country has administered 257,439,674 COVID-19 vaccine doses, an increase of 40,934 doses from Sunday./.