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./.