The same day, there were additional 13,142 patients declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,170,271.
The ministry also announced further four fatalities, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,117 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 256,291,765 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 300,913 doses from Monday./.