The number of daily new COVID-19 cases from March 1-September 29, 2022
The same day, 1,100 patients were declared free of the virus, taking the total number of recoveries at 10,590,917.
The ministry also announced one more fatality, bringing the nation's COVID-19 death toll to 43,148 or 0.4 percent of the national caseload.
The nation has administered 260,065,575 COVID-19 vaccine doses so far, an increase of 48,759 doses from Wednesday./.